Posted by Toby Inkster on 05/06/06 14:58

Neredbojias wrote:

> I agree with that, but determining a window is markup to me, not styling.

I never said it was styling -- it's controlling behaviour, which can be
done with Javascript.

> And even if it were styling, there should have been an attribute in css
> _before_ they axed the html "target".

The facility to target particular windows was added to Javascript long
before target was deprecated (not "axed") in HTML.

> What's a "cruft"?


From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

cruft /kruhft/ [very common; back-formation from {crufty}] 1. n. An
unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is cruft; the
TMRC Dictionary correctly noted that attacking it with a broom only
produces more. 2. n. The results of shoddy construction. 3. vt. [from
`hand cruft', pun on `hand craft'] To write assembler code for something
normally (and better) done by a compiler (see {hand-hacking}). 4. n.
Excess; superfluous junk; used esp. of redundant or superseded code. 5.
[University of Wisconsin] n. Cruft is to hackers as gaggle is to geese;
that is, at UW one properly says "a cruft of hackers".

I was referring to definition 4.

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