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Osmo Saarikumpu wrote:

> On 17.1.2013 23:00, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>> Andrew Poulos wrote:
>>>> <http://caniuse.com/#search=defer>
>>> Interesting. IE, Firefox and Chrome have been supporting it since
>>> forever with Opera as the only holdout.
>> Perhaps.  I am still not sure to what extent caniuse.com results can be
>> trusted, and would suggest you do your own tests instead.
> 
> Seems more reliable than W3Schools :),

Which appears not too hard to do, so it does not count in my book.

> which includes the Opera logo and
> says: "The defer attribute is supported in all major browsers."
> 
> (http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_script_defer.asp)
> 
> Last week I downloaded Opera 12 [Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1)
> Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.12] and it does not pass the "Try it
> yourself" example there
> 
> (http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_script_defer)
> 
> nor my own defer test page.

ACK.

The problem of statements using a relation like ”is supported in” (IMHO 
better: by) with ranges like “*major* browsers” is that it is deferring (no 
pun intended) the truth value of that statement to a subjective definition 
for “major browser”, making the seemingly objective statement actually a 
subjective one.  The “all” quantifier of the relation then merely adds to 
the subjectivity of the statement.

If W3Schools.com would not consider Opera Browser a “major browser”, which 
would therefore not be an instance of the subclass of “major browsers” (and 
one can easily make a class definition based on the property of market share 
so that it would not apply to Opera Browser), there is a probability greater 
than zero that under *that* interpretation that statement is correct.

Therefore, arguments of that kind are informal fallacies:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman>

-- 
PointedEars

Twitter: @PointedEars2
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lazy loading Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-01-17 15:38 +1100
  Re: lazy loading "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-01-16 23:50 -0800
  Re: lazy loading Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-01-17 17:00 +0100
    Re: lazy loading Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-01-18 07:24 +1100
      Re: lazy loading Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-01-17 22:00 +0100
        Re: lazy loading Osmo Saarikumpu <osmo@weppipakki.com> - 2013-01-21 09:49 +0200
          Re: lazy loading Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-01-21 11:54 +0100
  Re: lazy loading Danny <dann90038@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 13:26 -0800
    Re: lazy loading Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-01-19 13:34 +1100
  Re: lazy loading Danny <dann90038@gmail.com> - 2013-01-19 11:12 -0800

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