@Edent what's so bad about <div> ... or: Why do you want to avoid them?

[vinishor@bsd.network]

@bortzmeyer @Edent I agree, but I also think that we could do better in the first place to avoid these issues. Creating a fork can be a good thing, but improving organization methods are better for me

[emily_s@mastodon.me.uk]

@fishidwardrobe @Edent oh yeah, boring to the point I'd forgotten it happened

[aburka@hachyderm.io]

@Edent the new guy's thread says a lot of the right things, but I can't say I'm reassured to see someone with "a business and finance background" taking the reins 😬

[edent@mastodon.social]

@aburka you're right. Terrible idea to have a firm financial footing and an understanding of now to effective use money.

[aburka@hachyderm.io]

@Edent you'll forgive my skepticism given that MBAs are sometimes more interested in financial engineering and growth at any cost than technical excellence. Look at what's happened to Firefox with McKinsey drones in charge. I don't think that's happening here yet but we'll see.

[drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social]

@bortzmeyer @Edent MariaDB was made by original developers of MySQL (Maria is literally My's little sister) so that shows, in my mind, that is hard to hand off projects.

[zudnick@mas.to]

@Edent Looks like they're just piggy-backing off popular posts in order to encourage people to click a link to their social network.

Block (and report?)

[michiel@social.tchncs.de]

@Edent a portent of things to come. This kind of nonsense can be generated for a few cents, so eventually it will drown out things that take greater effort.

[jezhiggins@mastodon.me.uk]

@rgarner @Edent Not quite so pleasing

[denny@boing.world]

@Edent What are the daytime conditions that produce the least electricity? Heavy cloud cover?

[edent@mastodon.social]

@denny that and snow!

[dan@mastodon.durrans.com]

@Edent I was very happy to add a bench in the Home & Away filming location the other day.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@dan nice one, thanks 😄

[girgias@phpc.social]

@Edent possibly something along the lines of:

すみません、その追悼碑のベンチを撮りたいです。立ち上がんでもいいですか？

sumimasen, sono tsu-i-tō-hi no bentchi o toritai desu.
tachi-a-gan-de-mo-ii desu ka?

Although maybe someone like @zonuexe can criticise my Japanese and actually come up with a better way to approach this :)

[edent@mastodon.social]

@Sandra @gustav
What did you think about the second half of the post?

[edent@mastodon.social]

@Sandra did you read the blog post?
Not the Toot, the post.
Because it isn't about XHTML.

[simon_brooke@mastodon.scot]

@Edent I'm going to say, I loved XHTML. As someone who in those days mostly wrote things which generated markup (and mostly from #Lisp-like languages and XSL), any faults in markup meant there were problems with my code and it was very easy for debugging.

If you're hand-writing HTML, then yes, of course, tolerance is good. But there is room on the Web for both approaches!

[damonhd@mastodon.social]

@simon_brooke @Edent I write my source as ~XHTML to make errors easier to find (eg all tags should be syntactically balanced <or />), but I publish where possible as more compact HTML5: ~3% smaller through omitting optional closing tags and optional attribute quotes for example...

[simon_brooke@mastodon.scot]

@DamonHD @Edent That's a best-of-both-worlds solution, and worth thinking about.

These days I mostly write my HTML as #Clojure datastructures and rely on @weavejester's Hiccup to do the tag matching for me!

https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

[doop@social.earth.li]

@Edent Really enjoyed your travel posts!

Do you have any tips on eating vegetarian in Japan? I’m planning a trip next year with my (vegan) partner.