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LonaDotExe
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My CS teacher uses html 4 spec that has shit like <strong> and <font size=5> and all sorts of inline garbage. She writes the tags in ALL CAPS and it honestly looks like SQL had a baby with brainfuck. I can't handle this shit anymore. She feels like she's apparently very good at programming and has just been promoted to the School's CS HOD (Head of Department). I have no idea what to do I go to school everyday having to face her mutilating my interest in programming. My peers are all incompetent and don't care at all. Don't get me started on how she writes Python. What the fk man.

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  • 11
    2y
    Some people don't bother to keep learning and improve themselves. Her CS knowledge probably from 20 years ago.
  • 10
    2y
    Bummer!

    But also note that <strong> is HTML 5 and is the legit way to denote strong emphasis.
  • 17
    2y
    Html with inline styles + SQL.
    Make this abomination reality please! 😂

    <SELECT *><WHERE fontSize=5>
  • 8
    2y
    @Lensflare Don't you get something that is called 'react' ? 🤡
  • 1
    2y
    @sheriffderek why was this changed from <b></b> ?
  • 18
    2y
    @wackOverflow because bold does not convey intent which is important when doing text to voice.

    Is the bold just a design feature or does it mean important. Strong explicitly is intended to be interpreted in the context of how the reader consumes it.

    Text to voice, braiile or some other way.
  • 6
    2y
    @Voxera that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!
  • 5
    2y
    @wackOverflow to phrase it in other words:
    b (bold) is style.
    strong is semantics.
  • 4
    2y
    HTML isn't real coding.

    Fight me bro.
  • 3
    2y
    @atheist so are unit tests
  • 3
    2y
    @atheist

    HTML is real coding...

    Ok, not gonna lie, I was just picking a fight 😂
  • 0
    2y
    I was rooting for her until the part that said she codes in Python...
  • 0
    2y
    They be like that. Nobody in academia is a seasoned engineer with a decade plus under their belt. Those people are making bank not teaching lazy students.
  • 0
    2y
    what's wrong with tags in all caps? gotta admit i often do that too

    even the current HTML standard ( https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ ) says: "Many strings in the HTML syntax (e.g. the names of elements and their attributes) are case-insensitive"

    i'm not a webdev, so i don't really watch and follow current trends and "commons". but i understand your pain as i've tried to push at least some basic python code styling in our team and failed.
  • 0
    2y
    @CoreFusionX as if writing all that xml in ms stack is
  • 0
    2y
    @wackOverflow Because <b> meant "Bold" at the time - that that is a stylistic choice and not really a semantic meaning. Strong emphasis can be styled any way you choose - but say, Siri - would know to say the word differently - or screen-readers etc.

    Also they seem to be trying to rebrand <b> as "The bring attention to" element. :shrug
  • 1
    2y
    @wackOverflow same applies for <i> and <em>
  • 1
    2y
    @CoreFusionX Markdown coding wants to join the fight too :D
  • 2
    2y
    Writing tags in all caps is the old fashioned (as in reeeeally old) way of writing HTML.
  • 0
    2y
    @atheist I don't fight you. I Figma you.
  • 1
    2y
    @ethernetzero Yeah, feels totally like it's 1980s.
  • 2
    2y
    @tw001 No, we did not have html 1980 :P, it came 1992 :)

    1980 we only had assembly or line numbered basic, but yes, basic was usually written in all caps, so some resemblance :D
  • 0
    2y
    Argh, Basic. That's my sweet childhood memory.
  • 2
    2y
    @Voxera Sorry, BASIC.
  • 2
    2y
    @tw001 yes, sorry, been too long, my BASIC has gone a bit rusty :P
  • 1
    2y
    @cjbuzon if your in the development business your always a STUDENT, or your obsolete ;)
  • 0
    2y
    @Voxera Oh, it seems everybody is talking about Rust these days.
  • 0
    2y
    While HTML tags are case-insensitive, I don't remember anyone write them in CAPS, whether in StackOverflow, or in CodePen.

    It's simply not in style anymore.
  • 0
    2y
    Sometimes I really miss the BASIC's GOTO, mainly to execute a code block just few lines above and don't abstract it ( b/c I love DRY KISS )
  • 0
    2y
    In same line of thoughts, I think that it would be good if all the high level programming languages had inherited the ASM's JE, JNE, JMP and related. It's completely diff way of doing the things, but IMHO it's possible to combine them for DRYness if not simplicity
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