I enjoy light shining through objects you wouldn't normally expect it to shine through.
On an unrelated subject, we're learning webstuff in one of my classes. This includes basically everything I've taught myself over the past couple years (i.e. to make this photoblog look like this and not, say, like my starting template), which is kind of awesome, because I've been doing a lot of it semi-wrong.
One thing that really surprised me:
<i> for (italics) and <b> (for bold) are deprecated, which is webspeak for "archaic and going out of style and you shouldn't use them anymore."
Instead, I'm supposed to be using <em> (for "emphasis") and <strong> (for... um... strong?).
This just made my head spin. <i> and <b> were the first two HTML commands I learned and--next to <a> and <img> tags--still some of my most frequently-used tags. I feel like my lifelong favorite oddities shop is going out of business.
...actually, according to w3schools, "they are not deprecated, but it is possible to achieve richer effects using style sheets."
That makes me feel marginally better.
Date: May 2008
Where/What: a strawberry with the top cut off, held up to light
Camera: Fuji S700
Shutter: 1/50
Aperture: f 6.3
ISO: 200
Listening to: Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby (Alison Krauss, from O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
Thankful for: access to lab computers that work
6 comments:
HTML is a tricky subject. Much like English, HTML is a living, breathing language; rapidly evolving; with lots of dialects. There are prescriptivists, and it sounds like your class is being taught by one. This isn't at all surprising, nor is it necessarily a bad thing. I'm actually rather a fan of formal education. But the W3C, official deprecating body of the World Wide Web (and no relation to w3schools, which simply provides simple tutorials), is kind of like l'Académie française: no matter how much they try to be all proper, the language is still in the hands of the people.
And most people not only don't have the mental discipline to keep meaning and presentation separate, they simply don't have the time. If I want to italicize the name of a book (not emphasize it), I just want to put little tags around it and be done; I don't want to come up with some stupid class and all the scaffolding that entails, and possibly even have to stick it in a separate friggin' document.
So unless you aspire to join the snooty Web elite, don't feel at all bad for being attached to <i> and friends. (They are even listed below this comment box as HTML tags explicitly supported by Blogger.)
Know this: I will look at your pretty pictures and read your silly stories regardless of how high-brow your Web technique is. :)
And now you've made me wish I had strawberries in the house.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Thanks, John. :)
(Though I am sorry about your strawberry predicament.)
As you say, the "prescriptivism" isn't necessarily a bad thing. This is sort of a "web for dummies" class, and--MUCH to my surprise--I seem to be one of the more experienced people in the class about this stuff.* So--I mean--this kind of information is good to know, especially at this level. You oughta know the rules before you bend or break them, y'know?
* ex.: Someone asked how to make "descriptive text" appear when you hovered your mouse over a link. The teacher didn't know about title attributes. I live for title attributes.
(On the other hand, I've always ignored alt text, since I figure if a person can't see my images, then the entire point of the site is gone, and a little substitute text won't really help. I realize this is poor form and somewhat "illegal," but.)
pretty picture...
and I really love that song... in fact, I sang it to the boys when they were little... so, I have quite an attachment to it...
Holy Great Abstracts Josy!
I love the colors. Before even knowing what it is it makes me hungry.
why that's just gorgeous. trippin color as well. and don't get down on those web skills for no one is more inept than little ole me. take my site, for example ... terrible, just terrible. basic, but terrible.
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