Scripting News: Friday, March 22, 2024
Friday, March 22, 2024 Back in the 80s before many of you were born, you could buy a word processing program, which was basically a text editor, and you could use it to write and then when it came time to send that writing to other people, you would print it. And get this the printer could take its input from any of those writing tools. There were no tiny little text boxes . The printers didn't come with their own editors, you had choice and therefore there was lots of competition. Amazing, right? # What if climate change comes to where you live in the form of tornadoes that last 30 days. # If only Brendan Eich had incorporated UCSD Pascal units into JavaScript. It was easy to make modular reusable bits of code. # Broken images suck, Google # Something the HTTPS evangelists must not understand: there's substantial breakage when you convert an HTTP site to HTTPS. Every image in every page breaks. Broken images make a statement , they're li...