Posted by robert maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t on 02/16/07 16:14

> From: "Andy Dingley" <ding...@codesmiths.com>
> > > So close your elements with an end tag.
> > If I do that, validation fails. Should I just ignore validation failure??
> No, you should learn the difference between closing a tag and
> closing an element.

I thought I already knew that:

////-tag that opens element /////-tag that closes an element (end tag)
<em>This is an emphasized sentence.</em>
| \-closing that tag | \-closing that tag
\-opening that tag \-opening that tag

So what's wrong with that, such that I still need to learn the difference?
Or are you just bullshitting me to waste everybody's time?

> You're using Berkeley,

I don't quite know what you mean by that. I'm using a shell account
on a machine that runs FreeBSD Unix. Is that what you mean?

> so I have to ask: Have you done a _lot_ of drugs in the past?

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China???

I've never "done" drugs, any at all, not even alcohol or nicotine,
and I've consumed only a tiny bit of caffeine, much less than most
people in this society do. I fail to see how this is on-topic for
this newsgroup, except that if you plan to hire me to work for you,
but I need to pass a drug-free test first, I should pass perfectly,
so you can stop worrying, just go ahead and offer me a job now.

> Your postings are even longer than mine and you over-write
> terribly.

English (composition/expression) was always a difficult subject for
me. I just don't know how to express myself succinctly 99% of the
time. I never claimed to be a English-composition expert. I try to
explain what I mean, but it takes lots of extra words to try to say
clearly what I mean and prevent misunderstanding, and no matter how
much I say somebody still misunderstands and I have to come back
and explain what my explanation meant. I'm not applying for jobs
in writing literature or even newspaper reports, for good reason.
I'm not even applying for jobs writing final proof of glossy user
manuals, although I'd be fine at writing initial drafts of such
documents, then after somebody else who is expert at English cleans
up the wording I the proofread their results to see if they mangled
the technical stuff to be no longer correct.

> You clearly have _no_ ability to concentrate long enough to learn
> the most simple, yet important, details (attribute quoting?)

I put "< " at left margin of anything I quote from the previous
poster in the newsgroup thread, including the From: line of the
person who said it. How is that not acceptable to you?

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