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Take that biatch
Last night I dreamt about having a meeting with the stupid Ditzy Dumb Ass of a manager we have at work.
It was all about our web presence and how crap things were. I was shaming her out by telling everyone all the stupid things she’s done that go against W3C guidelines. She went all red and flustered like she does, trying to make excuses.
I know in real life doing something like that wouldn’t make any difference, but it was a great dream.
What a geek I am.
Because I’m a Geek
While doing a bit of reading about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), I came across a page from 1998 about Text Decoration with CSS.
It talks about blinking text which I remember using alongside the good old “Site under construction” animated gif when I was an Internet noob.
The page states:
Therefore, only CSS1-aware versions of Netscape Navigator are going to see the following effect:
H4 {text-decoration: blink;}This might be a blinkin’ H4
Lovely, isn’t it?
NO! It is not lovely, and I justify using capitalisation, strong and emphasis styling on that statement!
Luckily for us there are now web guidelines that discourage this sort of rubbish and we don’t really see these things too often today.
Even Lou Montulli the creator of the original <blink> tag (which has since been deprecated and replaced by the above text-decoration) admits that it is The worst thing I’ve ever done for the Internet.
It was just funny seeing how someone thought that using blinking text was lovely
.
And who uses Netscape anyway…?
See also my Foolery Four #11 comic. I created this even before seeing the note on the W3c User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 that states in Guideline 4 flashing content may trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy
. I thought I was being exteme, but I guess not!
The Foolery Four #12
Albino African Nerd may have had some competition if Hippy Ninja's laser cutter actually worked as expected.
The Foolery Four #11
Ditzy Dumb Ass has another crap idea
The Foolery Four #09
Enter the Ditzy Dumb Ass
The Foolery Four #08
Albino African Nerd needs more skills
kB Comparison Chart
I’ve had numerous debates on the 1000 versus 1024 bytes to a kilobyte, and noone seems to win in the end. Even the interwebs can’t give us a proper answer.
So, I am willing to settle for the following. (This kilobyte comparison chart is hung on the hubby’s wall at work, printed from a website that I can’t seem to find xkcd.com – A Webcomic – Kilobyte.)
Shake some Kelly-Bootle
Previously on Eggshell Green
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