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tomw

@tomw@mastodon.social

Web developer. Sometimes designer. I like code, words and mass movements. Jag lär mig #svenska.

Interested in/may post about #html #css #wordpress #openweb #decentralisation #socialism #protest

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rauschma, to random
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Does anyone know if the HTML <section> element is in practical use anywhere? Is it ever useful?

My impression is that the heading elements (<h1> etc.) are enough and preferred now(?)

tomw,
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@rauschma <section> is supposed to contain both the heading and the text the heading refers to.

What I actually used it for recently though (maybe not quite the intended purpose) was delineating full-height page sections for scroll-snapping

timbray, to random
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Beeper is outta Beta. I wonder if it’s going to be a big deal.

https://www.beeper.com

tomw,
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@timbray I expect I'll hear about this again soon when Facebook blocks it

Edent, (edited ) to webdev
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A poll for all my
friends!

Suppose you have comments on your website. They all have a valid <time> element in them.

Comments are displayed in a nested list, with the oldest first.

Should you use:

tomw,
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@Edent Controversial but I think "everything that is a list or list-like should be <ul> or <ol>" was a wrong step when it became fashionable (15 years or so now) - for example the use of <ul> for menus, which you still see even though <nav> now exists.

I think it's better - more semantic, even! - to use <ul> for bullet lists, <ol> for numbered lists, and some other element for other page elements, even if they look like a bit like lists if you squint

tomw,
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@Edent This is a deathly unfashionable answer but probably <div class="comments">

tante, to random
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I miss native apps. Those snappy little motherfuckers that stated quickly, did the thing and didn't bring massive rendering engines and associated RAM cost with them.

tomw,
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@lazyb0y @tante @hannesdonel Too fast, no time to make coffee

tomw, to random
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Mastodon has two types of people: people who really want replies to their posts and people who extremely do not.

(I am in the first category, reply away)

tomw,
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The irony of this getting some boosts and likes but no replies

tomw,
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@tokyo_0 I can understand it on some level but it seems to escalate to increasingly furious screeds about how no one should ever reply to them. A bit mystifying

tomw,
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@GlasWolf Reply-guying is a real problem - post pretty much anything about a Windows problem for an example ("install Linux!") But yes, some people seem to want no replies ever.

tomw,
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@KydiaMusic Maybe reply-as-social-obligation is part of it. The way I see it, this is heavily async communication and my reply may never be seen, person may be busy, drop phone in a lake etc, who knows? So I don't experience an obligation to acknowledge replies

tomw,
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@GlasWolf Posting to social media appears to strengthen the perceived level of disagreement, like:

"I don't think that's quite right... (thoughtful and mildly worded post ensues)"
"Who asked you, get fucked"

tomw,
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There is a third type, the "only reply if" essay-writer who sets out a long list of conditions, but I think it's safer to leave them well alone

tomw,
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@GlasWolf That said, an ostentatiously faux-civil tone is even worse than a hostile one, and almost always a sign of bad faith, so I can see why mildness can get ignored

tomw,
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@TonyJWells I believe, according to niche but forgotten Mastodon rules, that the original post should be "cw meta"

tomw,
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@arunmani I think lots of people don't always reply to replies, even if they do appreciate them!

tomw,
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@mikej Oh yeah, that was an awful Twitter-ism:

"I don't think that's right..."
"Well you have 5 followers lol"

GossiTheDog, to random
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Pretty funny - Nintendo Network shut down today finally and Wii U and 3DS device support ended.

Pretendo, an effort to keep devices online via homebrew, kept quiet an SSL bug which enables them to spoof being Nintendo Network via just a DNS server change 🤣🫡
https://mastodon.pretendo.network/@pretendo/112238381209517548

tomw,
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@GossiTheDog This is interesting because I bet Nintendo would still want to patch this, but also just turned off its capability to do so

Edit: this is a little speculative though as we can't be sure that the online services and OS update mechanism was so tied together as that

cabel, to random
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I’m afraid to say this out loud, but I’ve always wondered why there’s an unwritten social contract that taggers don’t tag cars. Ignoring that it would be the absolute worst… like, why don’t they?

Which is to say, I wonder what the first taggable consumer vehicle will be — and why will it be the Cybertruck

tomw,
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@cabel Easier to find a dirty van and write "cleen me" in the dirt

baldur, to random
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'This shit's so expensive': a note on generative models and software margins: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/this-shits-so-expensive/

tomw,
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@baldur This particular set of circumstances – loads of money being spent chasing something that is plausibly somewhat useful but also over-hyped – is a recipe for an approximate replay of the dot-com bubble

(I don't like the ethics of AI but I don't think it's a cryptocurrency-level nonsense – and the rush to slap AI on everything is getting reminiscent of every company suddenly declaring itself a web company, funding for dumb ideas if they have AI, etc)

tomw, to random
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Spare me from people who think the answer to "Google sucks now" is a paywalled search engine that gets most of its results from Google anyway

tomw,
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I heard "if you're not paying, you're the product!" so I'll pay some guy to call the Google API for me

I have to log in to do it but he pinky promises not to associate my searches with that account

tomw,
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@datarama That aphorism (not paying/product) is doing so much work for people who are basically just resellers

tomw,
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@DetersHenning I haven't tried it systematically (because costs money etc) but I don't find their free example searches better than Google. Somewhat different, mostly in removing some spammy results it seems, not really better overall. Certainly nothing like the night-and-day of switching from Yahoo (or whatever) to Google back in the day.

gauley, to random
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IMPORTANT SCAM PSA
Theres a new scam going around that's not very obvious and can be easy to fall for! If you see a box with cheese in the middle of it, DONT GO FOR THE CHEESE!

tomw,
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@gauley And I suppose you have a better idea for how to obtain cheese?

I need cheese so I have to go where the cheese is, it's that simple.

billgoats, to solar
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A few folk were going 'blah blah blah your panels are at the wrong angle for your latitude blah blah blah it'l gonna be so bad blah blah blah’ when I showed the polycarbonate bins with a 10~15° angle that they would be installed onto.

Well, here we are with a clear day in early April and they're pumping out 3,500 watts out of a theoretical-maximum-that-will-never-actually-be-reached of 4,000 watts.

That's not so bad, I'd say ☀️

tomw,
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@billgoats @TonyJWells I think this is a general condition of early adopters – it's rare that people want to go through all that effort to get something that operates at, say, 90% of its theoretical capacity, even if 90% is perfectly adequate. Like telling an early computer user that they won't be able to use all their RAM.

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