So in other words. Philip is teaching to fish. Not just giving you a fish.
Kudos Philip! Best, Karl Sent from losPhone > On Oct 6, 2014, at 5:07 AM, Philip Taylor <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > > Barney Carroll wrote: > >> CSS discuss often reminds me of my doctor, to whom I'll often go with >> queries about an acute injury and come away with advice to stop smoking >> – wise & well-intentioned, but somewhat short of the assumed benefits in >> seeking expert advice for a specific problem. > > But your doctor knows that advising you how to treat an acute pain in your > finger caused by an ingrowing nail is unlikely to result in any overall > improvement in your condition while you have 252 co-morbities in your arm > alone, and four affecting your whole body : > > > http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.dlp-distribution.fr/ > Sorry! We found the following errors (252) > > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.dlp-distribution.fr/ ( > errors, now now fixed). > > It should be a /sine qua non/ to ensure that a given web page validates for > both HTML and CSS before asking for help; if Mr Schwartz removes the > `e.preventDefault()` invocation on line 22, his page /may/ work as intended > on one specific smartphone or tablet today, but it may do something > completely unexpected on another device, or tomorrow, or if the wind blows in > a different direction, because whilst it is possible to predict the behaviour > of valid code with reasonably (but by no means absolute) certainty, it is > completely impossible to predict the behaviour of invalid code in any > meaningful way at all. > > Philip Taylor > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
