Re: [dev] [sw] Suckless web-framework

2010-04-05 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
On 4/4/10, Mate Nagy wrote: > ideal, I find it much more useful (dare I say suckless) to make your web > markup as *minimalist* as possible (e.g. no closing tags, no quotes > where you can skip them, no CSS, no JS, the simplest <=HTML4 > formatting). This will make your page work on all browsers f

Re: [dev] [sw] Suckless web-framework

2010-04-05 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 4 April 2010 07:57, Mate Nagy wrote: > This means that making your page respect an imaginary standard gives no > results except than a pretty badge. Rather than striving towards such an > ideal, I find it much more useful (dare I say suckless) to make your web > markup as *minimalist* as

Re: [dev] [sw] Suckless web-framework

2010-04-05 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 11:38:42AM +, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > Hey, > > On 4 April 2010 07:57, Mate Nagy wrote: > > This means that making your page respect an imaginary standard gives no > > results except than a pretty badge. Rather than striving towards such an > > ideal, I find it much

Re: [dev] Re: sprop: simple xprop replacement

2010-04-05 Thread Jacob Todd
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 02:18:49AM +, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 5 April 2010 02:08, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > > Mostly for fun, here's a simple replacement for xprop. > > A slightly improved version. (Sorry for the spam, I'm a perfectionist.) > > cls Thanks for this, Connor. Now for a

Re: [dev] [sw] Suckless web-framework

2010-04-05 Thread Jonas H.
On 04/05/2010 03:33 AM, Nibble wrote: As for HTML, don't use. Use. Same goes for Instead of, use Is it just a aesthetic issue? No it's HTML5.

Re: [dev] Re: sprop: simple xprop replacement

2010-04-05 Thread Martin Kopta
> Now for a replacement for X.org. ;) Please please, pretty please..

Re: [dev] [sw] Suckless web-framework

2010-04-05 Thread Uriel
Actually, modern browsers parse HTML much faster than XHTML (yes, I was fooled by the XML scam once too, and it was not until recently that I discovered even the myth of it making parsing of webpages faster was totally bunk). Which is one of the many reasons why XHTML is (thankfully) dead with HTM

Re: [dev] [sw] Suckless web-framework

2010-04-05 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 5 April 2010 15:13, Uriel wrote: > Actually, modern browsers parse HTML much faster than XHTML (yes, I > was fooled by the XML scam once too, and it was not until recently > that I discovered even the myth of it making parsing of webpages > faster was totally bunk). My point was not that we sh

Re: [dev] [sw] Suckless web-framework

2010-04-05 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 05 Apr 2010 at 08:29:24 PDT Connor Lane Smith wrote: On 5 April 2010 15:13, Uriel wrote: Actually, modern browsers parse HTML much faster than XHTML (yes, I was fooled by the XML scam once too, and it was not until recently that I discovered even the myth of it making parsing of webpages

Re: [dev] [sw] Suckless web-framework

2010-04-05 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 5 April 2010 17:34, Charlie Kester wrote: > it struck me that my email client was giving me an elegant example of > how the need for a closing tag can be eliminated.  See how the '>' > character is used? > > As for paragraphs, separating them with blank lines always made more > sense to me than

Re: [dev] [sw] Suckless web-framework

2010-04-05 Thread Mate Nagy
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:52:14PM +, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > On 5 April 2010 17:34, Charlie Kester wrote: > > As for paragraphs, separating them with blank lines always made more > > sense to me than tags, and here again, no closing tag is required. no closing tags are required for eit

Re: [dev] [sw] Suckless web-framework

2010-04-05 Thread David Tweed
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Mon 05 Apr 2010 at 08:29:24 PDT Connor Lane Smith wrote: >> >> On 5 April 2010 15:13, Uriel wrote: >>> >>> Actually, modern browsers parse HTML much faster than XHTML (yes, I >>> was fooled by the XML scam once too, and it was not until r

[dev] simple addictive wordgame

2010-04-05 Thread pancake
Last night I wrote a simple game based on a facebook one called 'word challenge'. in fact i dont have fb, and there are several versions of the same game, but with different play rules. This one is quite adictive, and, apart from the side that it needs some fixes, but if you wanna try is just 350L

Re: [dev] [sw] Suckless web-framework

2010-04-05 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 05 Apr 2010 at 12:30:35 PDT Mate Nagy wrote: HTML is not XML. don't confuse them. Of course it isn't. But there are some similarities, both of them being branches on the SGML family tree.

Re: [dev] [sw] Suckless web-framework

2010-04-05 Thread Anthony J. Bentley
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 11:38:42AM +, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > Websites like this are extremely difficult to parse. "Is this the > end of a paragraph or the beginning? Let's test both!" In making your In case it's not clear: implicit end tags are _valid_ html, and completely unambiguous. E.g