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by MikeGale
Mon May 27, 2024 4:17 am
Forum: General Web Development
Topic: A sad description of what happens if you design a bad markup system
Replies: 0
Views: 1092

A sad description of what happens if you design a bad markup system

I assume this is all correct. I've certainly found the Wiki markup to be arcane. I picked up a description of code developed to convert Wikipedia markup to something useful. This may be of interest to some people working with HTML, or at least for a very good laugh. Wiki text is a format that ...
by MikeGale
Mon May 27, 2024 4:03 am
Forum: General Web Development
Topic: I got a $289 snail mail invoice from Domain Networks. Is it a scam?
Replies: 7
Views: 8783

Re: I got a $289 snail mail invoice from Domain Networks. Is it a scam?

As they continue sending, they presumably get enough money to keep going.

It would be good if there were a way to put such people out of business.
by MikeGale
Mon Sep 11, 2023 9:16 pm
Forum: General Web Development
Topic: htmx ... interesting but not valid HTML*
Replies: 4
Views: 28980

Re: htmx ... interesting but not valid HTML

Hi, Thanks for that. For some time I've thought the web has become a disaster zone. Not only are the pages laden with so much rubbish that you can't read the source, but some "developers" have no idea what they're doing (though they know how to "drive" a "framework" or two), and most of what gets ...
by MikeGale
Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:26 am
Forum: General Web Development
Topic: htmx ... interesting but not valid HTML*
Replies: 4
Views: 28980

Re: htmx ... interesting but not valid HTML

Interesting.

What is the uptake on the htmx technology? Are a lot of people using it? Is it growing?

Could be a better approach than some of these strait-jacketing "frameworks" that so many are using.

How does it fit sites that are not single pages?
by MikeGale
Wed Oct 05, 2022 12:01 am
Forum: General Web Development
Topic: HTTP Archive Report
Replies: 0
Views: 10221

HTTP Archive Report

Hi, The archive is producing reports based on a subset of pages they handle. It's based on automated analyses of pages which record all manner of details, as found on real sites. This includes all manner of measurements about fonts, css, markup, page weight and more. I haven't read it all but found ...
by MikeGale
Tue Jan 11, 2022 4:32 am
Forum: General Web Development
Topic: Best domain name registrar
Replies: 7
Views: 12220

Re: Best domain name registrar

I picked up a couple of things about GoDaddy recently. I haven't examined them in detail, but you might want to look more deeply. (I'm not entirely sure what's going on.) GoDaddy, Certificate revocation took longer than it ought to have and seems to have not been done very well: You need to read it ...
by MikeGale
Wed Jun 09, 2021 1:49 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Interesting installation
Replies: 3
Views: 3310

Re: Interesting installation

I've been snowed under for a while so glad to be getting back to something more normal. Maybe a note when the full uninstall comes up. I leave the previous version installed until after the new one is running. When I saw that I thought "Does that remove the prior version?" and decided not to take ...
by MikeGale
Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:01 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Interesting installation
Replies: 3
Views: 3310

Interesting installation

When I installed version 2021 Ent on a Win 10 machine I had an interesting experience. I went through picking my normal installation directory but presumably made a mistake and installed in the default directory. When I realised what I'd done, I uninstalled from there and re-installed in my normal ...
by MikeGale
Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:19 pm
Forum: General Web Development
Topic: Best domain name registrar
Replies: 7
Views: 12220

Re: Best domain name registrar

Amazon, AWS also has a registrar service.
by MikeGale
Mon Aug 17, 2020 11:21 pm
Forum: General Web Development
Topic: Windows 10 Edge browser bugs and Windows 10
Replies: 33
Views: 47265

Re: Windows 10 Edge browser bugs and Windows 10

I think it really sad that browsers as components are now hard to do. This is an important part of many potential software solutions. Without it we're forced to use browsers plus web servers.
by MikeGale
Sun Aug 16, 2020 6:07 pm
Forum: General Web Development
Topic: Mozilla layoffs
Replies: 4
Views: 4073

Re: Mozilla layoffs

Thanks for that. I find it disturbing of how the " free browser " game has played out. It's led to the rise of advertising , and with users hooked on it, they end up wasting so much (Their time , getting bad content , bandwidth ...) I wonder how much the value of the deal influenced the layoffs. Is ...
by MikeGale
Wed Aug 12, 2020 3:58 pm
Forum: General Web Development
Topic: Mozilla layoffs
Replies: 4
Views: 4073

Re: Mozilla layoffs

Second set of layoffs recently. Their revenue stream has been like that for a long time. They know that Google will eventually go for the jugular. This is one reason I'd much rather pay for a browser, a browser that actually does what I want. Then I wouldn't be in the hands of designers who don't ...
by MikeGale
Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:22 pm
Forum: General Web Development
Topic: Mozilla layoffs
Replies: 4
Views: 4073

Mozilla layoffs

I see that Mozilla is laying off 25% of its people.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/1 ... g-mozilla/

On Twitter look for #MozillaLifeboat

We are in danger of going in the wrong direction. I see suggestions that Chromium may fork.
by MikeGale
Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:27 pm
Forum: General Web Development
Topic: Pages that are altered by the browser
Replies: 5
Views: 4939

Re: Pages that are altered by the browser

By the earlier web I'm thinking of my experience. True there was a lot of ugly material and bad intent but there were also a good number of people doing inventive and powerful things. I remember multiple scripting languages, I even had somebody sending me instructions on how to plug my own language ...
by MikeGale
Mon Aug 10, 2020 5:04 pm
Forum: General Web Development
Topic: Pages that are altered by the browser
Replies: 5
Views: 4939

Re: Pages that are altered by the browser

It's an interesting area. The likes of Pocket and Instapaper show some of the possibilities. The 85X metric suggests that less than 2% of web traffic is useful to the audience. Think about that. We get more than 80 times greater capacity from the existing web if we ditch the garbage. People do ...