April 2007
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Dash? I think not!
Posted by Buddy on 29 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: General
Too many people get dashes confused with hyphens. Here’s a hint: That little key right after the zero—that’s a hyphen! Not a dash! For example, it’s “Overt hyphen ops dot com” not “overt dash ops dot com”. Hyphens are used to join words to make them (sort of) one word. Like in a web address. You know how people always used to say “that’s all one word”? Well, hyphens are basically another way of making it one word. Incidentally, my email address used to be “thatsalloneword” (I still use that one as a spam receptacle). Dashes are a completely different thing.
Another thing that bugs me is people that still say “forward slash”—it’s just a slash! Just because one is called a backslash doesn’t mean the other needs to be named a forward slash. “Slash” will do. People can figure out that, if it doesn’t have the word “back” in front of it, it probably isn’t a backslash. It’s like if you build something, then unbuild it. Do you need to create a new word, like “ununbuild” to differentiate the two? Nope. “Build” is fine on its own. And so is “Slash”.
Just posting.
Posted by Buddy on 08 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: General
No real reason to post. Nothing really to say. But I’m here, I have some computer time, and I’ve got nothing better to do. Plus, an inactive blog is a boring blog. Now this is an active, boring blog. Hooray.
So, there I was, minding my own business, when WHAM! Nothing happened.
I’m hungry.
Oh, and I finally found a book that is successfully teaching me DOM/JavaScript. I’ve been trying literally for years to learn scripting, but it never seemed to work. But now I found this book, and it’s finally working. I created this page by reading the book. But don’t get too excited; that page is actually just copied from the lessons in the book. The key part is that I actually know what’s going on, and why the scripting works. Also, if you view the source of that page, you’ll see that there are no javascript dealies in the body of the document. Only the link to the JS file in the head. Thus, “graceful degradation”. The links even work as normal links. A good way to prove that is to middle-click a link (mouse-wheel click) and watch as it magically opens just the picture in a new tab. Isn’t that fancy? I’ll probably put up other stuff as I learn it, too. But for now, enjoy that really simple, but finally understood, bit of scripty goodness.