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Thomas Mlynarczyk wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn schrieb:
>>> Well, "painted as paths on a `canvas' element" is certainly included in
>>> my definition of "graphics".
>> You should reconsider.
> 
> So what have I been doing with Inkscape all the time?

SVG, not Canvas.

>> One problem is that you do not know what JavaScript is.
> 
> I know that it is a scripting language used primarily by web authors to
> enhance (or degrade) user experience. And while this definition is
> certainly not as exact and perfect and complete as a specialist in that
> matter would require it to be, it works sufficiently well for me in
> practise.

Only because you do not know what you are doing.  JavaScript is only one of 
many ECMAScript implementations which differ from the ECMAScript Language 
Specification and from each other.

>>> And the "reason" why this path was chosen is certainly closer to
>>> mysticism than to logic.
>> 
>> You cannot know that.
> 
> Alright: And the "reason" why this path was chosen is certainly closer
> to mysticism *to me* than to logic.

My argument stands.

>>> In other words: It was done using JavaScript.
>> Wrong.
> 
> You are wrong. The observed effect depends on JavaScript being enabled.

No, it depends on support for a client-side ECMAScript-based scripting 
language to be enabled, and for an API with a language binding to support 
(one of) those languages.

> Which proves that JavaScript is being used. Hint: this does not exclude
> the possibility of other requirements.

Sadly, you still do not know what you are talking about.


PointedEars
-- 
Sometimes, what you learn is wrong. If those wrong ideas are close to the 
root of the knowledge tree you build on a particular subject, pruning the 
bad branches can sometimes cause the whole tree to collapse.
  -- Mike Duffy in cljs, <news:Xns9FB6521286DB8invalidcom@94.75.214.39>

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An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-03-12 13:57 -0500
  Re: An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2012-03-12 20:24 +0100
    Re: An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-18 17:22 +0100
      Re: An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2012-03-20 00:47 +0100
        Re: An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-21 13:41 +0100
          Re: An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2012-03-21 23:47 +0100
            Re: An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-22 20:32 +0100
              Re: An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom Dan <dan@tobias.name> - 2012-03-23 11:06 -0700
                Re: An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-23 22:06 +0100
              Re: An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2012-03-23 19:16 +0100
                Re: An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-23 22:28 +0100
  Re: An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-03-12 12:38 -0700
    Re: An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 16:09 -0400
  Re: An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-03-12 20:03 -0500
  Re: An HTML puzzle arising in comp.dcom.telecom David Postill <david.postill@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 11:53 +0100

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