[lit-ideas] Re: Blogging
- From: Thomas Hart <tehart@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:20:16 -0400
I won't disagree.
"All women are created equal.
Then some become Marines"
Katy Perry video for "Part of me"
Thomas Hart
tehart@xxxxxxx
On Jul 15, 2012, at 9:34 PM, carol kirschenbaum wrote:
> Old dog here. Tried learning new tricks. Didn't stick. It's true, I'm
> probably an idiot.
>
> ck
>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Thomas Hart <tehart@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Writing requires the manipulation of semantic elements, including coding
> elements for breath pauses that can affect perceived meaning. The difference
> between a comma and a semi-colon was fought over, I've read, at the
> Constitutional convention.
>
> It is not necessary to be a master, but you should at least have some
> competence.
>
> Insects are specialized, and look where they are. Specialists are by
> definition idiots.
>
> "All women are created equal.
> Then some become Marines"
>
> Katy Perry video for "Part of me"
>
> Thomas Hart
> tehart@xxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2012, at 8:55 PM, carol kirschenbaum wrote:
>
>> This post is precisely why I don't blog. Although the tech stuff here is
>> probably quite helpful to some, it turns me off in a way that performing
>> statistical computations can only approach. Nowadays, speaking one's mind
>> entails coding. Oh yuck.
>>
>> ck
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Thomas Hart <tehart@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The problem with things like Blogger, Wordpress, Sandvox, and iWeb is that
>> they use tricks behind the scenes to make it easy to insert video, pictures,
>> etc. However, and this is a biggie, they generate code that you're not
>> responsible for, at least in the sense that you didn't write it directly. So
>> if one of the programs is discontinued, as iWeb will be at some point in the
>> furure, you're sort of stuck with trying to redo the web site. Plus, as far
>> as I know, they generate HTML 4.0 code, and the web is moving to HTML 5.0. 5
>> is easier to use, and to control. For example, in 5 you can create a piece
>> that will hide/reveal graphics, text, etc:
>>
>> <details>
>> <summary> This is a big list of all movies with Mickey Rooney</summary>
>> List of all movies with Mickey Rooney
>> </details>
>>
>> When that code is viewed in a capable browser (Safari 5.2, 6.0, Chrome, but
>> not Firefox), you can click on the text in the summary and see all movies
>> with Mickey Rooney in a nice list. In other browsers, it will just display
>> as a list.
>>
>> To achieve the same thing in HTML 4.0 requires writing a Javascript routine.
>>
>> With the shutdown of MobileMe I've had to move some 400 posts from there to
>> my home server, and I converted from iWeb to strict HTML 5.0 and CSS3.
>>
>> I can send any interested party a copy of the stylesheet, and template that
>> I'm using.
>>
>>
>> "All women are created equal.
>> Then some become Marines"
>>
>> Katy Perry video for "Part of me"
>>
>> Thomas Hart
>> tehart@xxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 15, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Julie Krueger wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone have an informed preference for Blogger versus WordPress? Trying to
>>> do something that makes more sense than flipping a coin, here...
>>>
>>> Julie Krueger
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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