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Posted by Tony Cooper on 10/10/05 16:46
On 10 Oct 2005 02:58:00 -0700, "Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com>
wrote:
>Tony Cooper wrote:
>
>> You say the book wasn't worth whatever I paid for it. Yet, after
>> about an hour's reading I'm doing what I want to do. That makes it
>> worth the money as far as I'm concerned.
>
>If the page is "seen by half a dozen people and only up for a month",
>then couldn't you just phone them up and _tell_ them what's on the
>page?
You do understand that this is a page of family photographs?
How do you "tell" people about photographs? Isn't the intent of
photographs to "show" them?
>The fallacy is to assume that pages really are "just up for a short
>while" - they tend to stick around longer than you expect, the revised
>"real" version never happens when it ought to, or Google finds it and
>they're in the cache for ages afterwards, even after you've taken the
>page down. It's a big web out there - stuff gets seen by more people
>than you'd expect.
OK, let's say that even though I remove the page next month, someone
finds my page of family photographs in six months and there are
errors. What's the problem?
>You should always write good, modern well-structured HTML 4.01 (at
>least). It's _easier_ than the nasty old cruft of yesteryear and far
>quicker. However this assumes that you know how to do that and the sad
>fact is that most books and training are still very poor (Castro, Lie
>& Bos, Raggett or Meyer are some of the very few worth reading). If
>you've picked up a turkey of a book, then you have my sympathies - you
>probably spent longer than was necessary on getting what you needed
>done.
You shouldn't blame the book. It was copyrighted in 2000 and was
probably current at that time. If there's blame, it should be that I
haven't bought a new book and started using what is in the new book.
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