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2009
Woes of a Web Designer
Contrary to popular belief, there is no magical “fix your poorly taken photo” button. If your photo looks terrible in your hands, it’s going to look terrible when it’s scanned.
2009
Woes of a Web Designer
“I thought you were giving me the Internet? How can you give me a webpage and not give me the Internet!?”
2009
CSS Tables are not the answer
Just because you’re using CSS-tables doesn’t mean you’re making tableless design.
Lately I’ve seen so much praise for this stupid technique and it really baffles me.
Do people really think that designers ditched tables because the tag was named table?
This:
<div style="display: table">
<div style="display: table-row">
<div style="display: table-cell"></div>
</div>
</div>
Is in no way better than this:
<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
In fact it’s worse. It’s longer to write out, meaning it takes longer to implement and makes your file sizes larger, which in turn takes the files longer to download.
It’s also less semantic. If
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2009
Stupid terms
I was asked recently if I believed in “Climate Change”.
I said, “Yes, yes I do. It was warm yesterday, and today it is quite chilly. There are quite obvious differences in climate between Summer and Winter, not to mention differences between places closer to the equator and those further from it and they each have their own varying climate changes depending on the time of year. So yes, I believe in ‘Climate Change.’”
I was then promptly told I had “no fucking clue what I was talking about” and to “read a newspaper sometime.” I told them to read a fucking dictionary.
What happened to “Global Warming”? Why did people stop using that term? Was it
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