6:30pm I was napping on the study floor, I kid you not. \u00a0Bed probably would have been a more comfortable choice, however if I’d done that I would not have made my 7:30 squash game. \u00a0Setting an alarm is just way too complicated.<\/p>\n
So now it’s 1:30am, and of course I’m awake. \u00a0I knew this would happen, ready to fall asleep on my feet in the afternoon, wide awake at night. \u00a0It’s part of being a techie I believe, but really, I don’t enjoy it overly much.<\/p>\n
It was Australia Day on Monday. \u00a0A day of national pride, where we can all get together and celebrate our Australian-ness and what makes us and our Island\/Continent so damn excellent. \u00a0In Western Australia this all comes to a head at 8pm when we have the fireworks over the river, and event watched by pretty much everyone in one for or another.<\/p>\n
However over one thousand individuals thought rather than feel proud and stand tall it’d be a better idea to have a mass brawl<\/em> while another group thought it’d be jolly great sporting fun (wot wot) to throw beer bottles at each other (as IronSite asked me, how does a fight involving throwing bottles start?). \u00a0So rather than national pride, I’m now filled with a deep sense of shame and embarrassment on the behalf of those involved, because I’m sure they don’t have the decency to have any such notions.<\/p>\n Lastly, the more I work on RPoL the more I get the feeling it needs a proper database administrator, a proper web developer, a proper coder and a proper graphic designer. \u00a0I don’t fit into any of those categories.<\/p>\n I’ve been working on a few things on the site of late, but this one has annoyed me the most.<\/p>\n While looking at changing to XHTML I discovered\/realised that my document type at the start of the HTML was actually incomplete, currently saying;<\/p>\n <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional\/\/EN\"><\/tt><\/p>\n When what I really need is<\/p>\n <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional\/\/EN\" Though what I had before was valid, the lack of ‘dtd’ file puts most browsers into ‘quirks’ mode. \u00a0So I added it in, surely the full thing would be better, hopefully more uniform rendering across all browsers.<\/p>\n So I added it in. \u00a0Now every single table cell defaults to centre<\/em> aligned, rather than left. \u00a0I blamed this on XHTML at first, but then I realised it did it with HTML when I specified the dtd.<\/p>\n So I can either go through and tell every table cell with no alignment that it’s now left, but there’s a lot<\/span> of them, and apparently that’s not what you do any more, you use style sheets.<\/p>\n So I can set the default in the style sheet so the cells are left aligned, easy. \u00a0Except for the small fact that the style sheet takes precedence over the “align=’center'” and “align=’right'” I had to align the cells, so they’re all left aligned regardless.<\/p>\n I can, of course, make two special style sheet cases to align the text to the centre and right, and (having called these ‘centre’ and ‘right’) go through and change all instances of “align=’center'” and “align=’right'” to “class=’center'” and “class=’right'”, respectively. \u00a0However I cannot do a global search and replace because “align=’center'” and “align=’right'” occur in more than just table cells.<\/p>\n Anyone want a job of manual search and replace?<\/p>\n And did I mention that the nice nifty CSS command to hide the side scrollbar (unless it’s needed) no longer works when I specify the dtd? \u00a0I’m really beginning to question if it’s worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 6:30pm I was napping on the study floor, I kid you not. \u00a0Bed probably would have been a more comfortable choice, however if I’d done that I would not have made my 7:30 squash game. \u00a0Setting an alarm is just way too complicated. So now it’s 1:30am, and of course I’m awake. \u00a0I knew this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default-ramblings","tag-rpol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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