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scott wrote:
> I think it says more about the mentality of the user if they don't seek to
> find more efficient ways to work. Not just in using software, but in
> other things too.
People nowadays get used to things not working, and work around them.
My sister's computer has FlashBlock installed on Firefox. I once saw her
load a particularly flash-heavy website and very quickly move the mouse
around activating all of the different Flash components in the page. She
has probably done that a hundred times for that website already...
I expected she'd have complained to me about it before, and I'd have shown
her how to easily add a website to the whitelist.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> From that point on, I wrote every single assignment in HTML instead.
I would always do it if I could choose.
To my mind, there is something fundamentally wrong with WYSIWYG editors.
Type "hello world". Make "hello" bold. If you put the cursor after the 'o'
in 'hello', and type a space and another word, will it be bold or not?
Type "hello world". Make "world" bold. Delete "world". Now nothing seems to
be bold, but if you type something else, will it be bold or not? Maybe
there is the equivalent of <b></b> leftover in the document.
In HTML, I always know if the cursor is before or after a tag :)
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> ...and THIS is why I'm reluctant to buy a new phone. Who would want to
> pay money for something that runs an M$ OS? :-S
>
Get an iPhone then.
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Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> In HTML, I always know if the cursor is before or after a tag :)
Except that XML and its derivatives are hyperverbose and suck. The only
reason for the hyperverbosity is to make it easier for *programs* to
interpret the input, not for *humans*.
If you want more reasonable markupped documents, designed more for human
readability, use LaTeX.
--
- Warp
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Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> > ...and THIS is why I'm reluctant to buy a new phone. Who would want to
> > pay money for something that runs an M$ OS? :-S
> >
> Get an iPhone then.
But the iPhone is basically an Apple computer, and nobody uses Apple
computers.
--
- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> and nobody uses Apple computers.
Ah, true.
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> Type "hello world". Make "hello" bold. If you put the cursor after the 'o'
> in 'hello', and type a space and another word, will it be bold or not?
One of the following will let you know:
1) Remember that in Word when you type, the formatting is the same as what
is to the left of the cursor
2) Look to see if the "B" is "pressed" or not in the toolbar
3) Have the "Show Formatting" button pressed, so you can see if your space
was bold or not
> Type "hello world". Make "world" bold. Delete "world". Now nothing seems
> to
> be bold, but if you type something else, will it be bold or not?
Of course not. Unless you didn't just make "world" bold, but the
space/linefeed after it too, and then only deleted the word, of course then
leaving a space/linefeed in bold.
> In HTML, I always know if the cursor is before or after a tag :)
In Word, each character has a format associated with it, including spaces
and returns. Delete the character, the formatting goes with it. Start
typing, you get the format of the character to the left. It's not hard to
understand.
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Warp wrote:
> Except that XML and its derivatives are hyperverbose and suck. The only
> reason for the hyperverbosity is to make it easier for *programs* to
> interpret the input, not for *humans*.
>
> If you want more reasonable markupped documents, designed more for human
> readability, use LaTeX.
I disagree. I think *some* examples of XML suck, while others are more
or less OK. XHTML isn't too bad, but MathML is just insane... I haven't
tried personally, but I think SVG lies somewhere inbetween.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> and nobody uses Apple computers.
>
> Ah, true.
I'm more worried about the price, actually. ;-)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Type "hello world". Make "hello" bold. If you put the cursor after the 'o'
> in 'hello', and type a space and another word, will it be bold or not?
Ever use WordStar? :-)
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Helpful housekeeping hints:
Check your feather pillows for holes
before putting them in the washing machine.
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