I was in beginning html class all day

[VangelicSurgeon]

yes I was

 

[AndICried]

I'm proud of you, my dear boy!

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

for not chewing through the tender flesh of my wrists? thanks.

 

[FuSoYa]

you have mondays off now?

 

[xfer]

sweet irony that you can't use a whit of it on this board.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

no it's a training & development class, I got paid to take it.

 

[FrostGiant]

What's html? Some sort of abbreviation for something like Hot Tamales Must Last?

 

[lizard]

hypertext markup language

it's the basic code for web pages. if you want to see what it looks like, open a web page, click on "view", and then "source"

 

[avi]

html = what I stare at all day

 

[Stultus]

iro·ny

1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony

So wait, Lizard's conception of what html is is false?

 

[FrostGiant]

hypertext markup language

it's the basic code for web pages. if you want to see what it looks like, open a web page, click on "view", and then "source"

So that whole big ass file is for one page?

 

[lizard]

yup...cause the code specifies everything about it, from frames to colors to fonts to text size, location and measurement of pics, blah blah blah. and its really an art which requires attention to detail because one character wrong or missing can ruin your whole page.

 

[Stultus]

Am I truly oblivious or is this meta-sarcasm?

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

lizard is telling the truth

 

[FrostGiant]

That doesn't exactly look like much fun.

 

[lizard]

it can be extremely frustrating but the reward is when it all comes together just right.

I don't get to use it much so I'm not much of an expert.

 

[avi]

html coding is my job. I wasn't kidding when I said I stare at the stuff all day.

 

[lizard]

avi, what's the deal with this newer xml. wasn't that supposed to supplant html.

 

[avi]

yeah, that's what I hear but I haven't really messed around with it yet. people are always talking about the 'next thing', but I've yet to see anything worthwhile. I mean, look at Flash and what people were saying about that a couple years ago. I fucking hate flash.

 

[FrostGiant]

Yeah, the Green Lantern was much cooler.