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rangerpolitic | 6 years ago | on: HTML is the Web

The new approaches to HTML/CSS run directly counter to the specs sometimes.

Take Bulma for example. They provide styles for titles and subtitles, but their examples use h1 elements.

See: https://bulma.io/documentation/elements/title/

Why is that a problem?

This is explicitly addressed in the HTML 5.2 specification.

> h1–h6 elements must not be used to markup subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines unless intended to be the heading for a new section or subsection.

See: https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/sections.html#headings-and-sect...

As the author suggests, they don't understand the tools they're using.

rangerpolitic | 6 years ago | on: macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions

The linked source is directly from Adobe and directly contradicts the claim that "you need 13.1 to launch in 64-bit."

The source says:

> Photoshop CS6 and CC only install a 64-bit version on Mac OS.

Further, it says:

> Photoshop CS5 installs a version that can launch in either 32 bit or 64 bit when you install on a 64-bit version of Mac OS (Mac OS X 10.5 or later).

If CS5 install can launch in 64-bit, it wouldn't make sense for CS6 to be 32-bit only from the first version.

Even further, I know from personal experience that your claim is highly unlikely. This is a screenshot of Photoshop CS5 (12.0.4) running in 64-bit on my machine (High Sierra). Noticed it says "12.0.4 x64."

https://imgur.com/a/nCTghcy

I am not sure of the source of your information, but it's simply incorrect.

Edit: This is another article directly from Adobe.

It says:

> On Windows, both Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended have the option to run natively in either 32-bit or 64-bit editions. On Macintosh, only a 64-bit edition is available.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/release-note/release-notes...

rangerpolitic | 6 years ago | on: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki addresses hate speech controversy

What constitutes hate?

Should people be permitted to use the word "marijuana" on YouTube? See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igtLqhX4BCA

Should people be permitted to use the "okay" gesture in videos? See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwJgr-4j14E

Should people be permitted to use a swastika in videos? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Contemporary_use

It seems the fascists are already taking advantage of the ambiguity.

rangerpolitic | 6 years ago | on: I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project

If I were to hire you, can I trust that you would not publicly complain about a disagreement? This needs to be asked because this simple act, even though your anger is justified, calls into question your ability to act professionally.

I would recommend removing or rewording the complaint about the client.

Never, never, never publicly complain about a client in a way that can be linked back to you and/or your client.

rangerpolitic | 6 years ago | on: I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project

> Surely the guy not paying is the unprofessional one?

Surely, both people in the relationship can behave unprofessionally.

> How is cutting your losses and walking away (but outsourcing the code you wrote) unprofessional?

That's not why people are suggesting the developer is unprofessional. It's because he's complaining about a client publicly.

rangerpolitic | 6 years ago | on: W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM

> Can you give us a link to your elegant table-less IE5 supporting website?

I cannot. They no longer exist. This was 14 years ago. I left web development shortly afterwards.

For your example, horizontal alignment was easy. One container div with a width of 99.9% and a left/right margin of auto. Inside you place three divs (columns) with a width of 33.3% and float left. Add another div at the end to clear the float.

Vertical alignment required a "hack."

http://www.greywyvern.com/code/min-height-hack

And to be clear, I never called it "elegant." I simply suggested it was possible.

Should CSS have been better? Sure. But, by that measure, it still sucks today.

rangerpolitic | 6 years ago | on: W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM

> Did you miss the 5-10 years during which every CSS designer tortured themselves replicating tables with floats?

I never really understood why people had such difficulty with this. I was able to execute table-less layouts while still supporting IE5 on Mac.

> To this day, changing a site's entire design without touching its markup is a mirage.

That's only because HTML authoring is dead. No one writes HTML well these days. Just look at tools like Elementor. How many nested divs do you need to add a faux button to a website? It's ridiculous.

Write well-structured, semantic HTML being mindful of a separation of concerns, and flipping between stylesheets is a piece of cake.

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