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Re: ...so this is progress (all modern web designers please read)

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And while I'm at it, html and the like is more like cp/m in that the 
software and hardware are often different but the display has got to look 
good on all combinations, which of course is impossible, so when mobiles 
came out they decided to do new versions of pages, then as mobiles got 
better they tended to try to be all things to all stuff again.
 Where is my chizel and some marble.
 Here lies a solid state programmer.
 Brian

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Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email.
 graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them
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"Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> Most definitely. I gave up html. Mark up language ends up bigger than the 
> data it is supposed to support!
>
> I think what has happened is that the basic html was fine for the purpose 
> of presenting info, then folk invented glue on bits and extras, but never 
> actually grasped the nettle and created  some kind of routine that 
> emulated the print at command or much like it. In my view its also tied in 
> with this object oriented approch. To my mind all an object is is an 
> interlinked set of parameters of different types or classes to use the 
> modern buzz words. Kind of like linked multi dimensional arrays.
> Local variables would have been nice in ZX Basic though I have to say, but 
> one can emulate it simply by adding a ccharacter to a name which exists 
> globally.
>
> I do think there is an element of the Kings new clothes about modern 
> programming and display languages.
> Brian
>
> -- 
> From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is  active
> <bit-naughty@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:fb377bc0-0582-406f-879d-af07d20e547e@googlegroups.com...
> ....so I was having yet *another* go at my CSS and Javascript books, 
> trying to get all this stuff into my head, and I just thought that I'd 
> share with you guys, my thoughts:
>
> After all this time, and all this so called "progress", with modern web 
> dev., there's no "PRINT AT" anywhere..... something that the Spectrum let 
> me play with more than 25 years ago!!! To get anything on screen, you have 
> to fiddle with classes, and Javascript coding, oh, and God knows what 
> else!! WHAT ARE THESE GUYS UPTO? HAVE THEY GONE MAD???!!! Did Brendan Eich 
> or Tim Berners-Lee, or whoever the fuck it is, never have access to a 
> Spectrum when THEY were young???
>
>
> Even something like DLAN was so much FUN!!
>
> What this is going to do is turn off today's kids towards coding, and mess 
> with their heads properly.
>
> Any of you guys feel the same way???
> 

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...so this is progress (all modern web designers please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2015-06-15 07:53 -0700
  Re: ...so this is progress (all modern web designers please read) Adam Ainsworth <adam.ainsworth@gmail.com> - 2015-06-15 14:58 -0700
    Re: ...so this is progress (all modern web designers please read) "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-06-16 11:55 +0100
  Re: ...so this is progress (all modern web designers please read) Selwyn Froggitt <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-16 00:26 -0700
  Re: ...so this is progress (all modern web designers please read) "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-06-16 11:54 +0100
    Re: ...so this is progress (all modern web designers please read) "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-06-16 17:12 +0100

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