Comments for Alex Mauzon

Comment on WYSIWYG vs Handcoding by Captain Tax and Death

Captain Tax and Death — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:50:48 +0000

I forgot to mention: WYSIWYG is the ONLY major advancement in computer technology (both software and hardware) since 1970.

For example: We still do not have computers that cannot digitize analog video from VCRs and have logical video-editing software that actually works. We still do not have that basic technology. Whatever exists out there may work for about 6 months to a year, then ceases to work as bugs and registry-changes accumulate on one’s computer.

Comment on WYSIWYG vs Handcoding by Captain Tax and Death

Captain Tax and Death — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:48:28 +0000

What world are you all living in? A world where you do nothing productive, except research the tool – the computer – itself rather than getting stuff done WITH the tool?

WYSIWYG is a quantum leap in the advancement of computer software and hardware technology. Without it, my and billions’ of others’ documents would never get done.
I do a lot of math, and I could not have created and published 6 peer-reviewed math papers and a doctoral dissertation without MS Word and Design Science’s Mathtype.

I lived through the horror of mainframe computers in college, no support, pre-WYISIWYG, DOS commands. Always in the end, when one had to produce an actual document, one had to use a manual typewriter or print it by hand.

TeX/LaTeX are the most hideous pieces of garbages on earth.

If you want to study a tool for its own sake, study mathematics.
There’s lots of critical work that needs to be done in pure math.
Don’t waste time researching a computer for its own sake.

Comment on WYSIWYG vs Handcoding by Aneudy

Aneudy — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:39:46 +0000

WYSIWYG is one of the reasons new programming students don’t learn to code very well. WYSIWYG makes them lazy! Inserts a bunch of “excrement” that you don’t really need. Take for example word processors. People would save huge amounts of space by using a text editor and mark-ups instead of a freaking WYSIWYG word processor.

Comment on Pseudoclasses :first-child and :last-child for IE6 by Alex

Alex — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:39:17 +0000

Hey Peter. Can you please re-check post’s date?
Thank you

Comment on Pseudoclasses :first-child and :last-child for IE6 by peter drinnan

peter drinnan — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:20:05 +0000

Why all the fuss over IE6? Outside of China is a dead browser. See:

http://www.ie6countdown.com/#list

Comment on An ultimate solution for IE6 position: fixed problem by ie6 problems

ie6 problems — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:27:01 +0000

Get out from ie6 problems use following code in body section of your website :

Comment on Simplest semi-transparent background (with png) by Peter Drinnan

Peter Drinnan — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:09:14 +0000

Works perfectly. Thanks!

Comment on Pseudoclasses :first-child and :last-child for IE6 by shashi

shashi — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:54:18 +0000

Hi Alex, We need your assistance

I want to use the expression code.

Below is the CSS code for normal and first-child
#mini-ctlg-tabs li a.active{
background: url(../images/tab-bg-active.gif) top right no-repeat;
border:0px solid #fff;
border-right:0;
color:#333;
padding:0px 30px 0 15px;
text-decoration:none;
cursor:default;
}

#mini-ctlg-tabs li:first-child a.active{
background: url(../images/tab-bg-first-child.gif) top right no-repeat;
border:0px solid #fcfcfc;
border-right:0;
color:#000000;
cursor:pointer;
display:block;
height:27px;
line-height:27px;
padding:0 30px 0 8px;
text-decoration:none;
cursor:default;
}

Can you please help me with your suggestion or a similar sample code.

Comment on Pseudoclasses :first-child and :last-child for IE6 by Christopher Hill

Christopher Hill — Mon, 23 May 2011 11:51:41 +0000

Great trick, i never new you could do this with IE6! Good Job!

Comment on An ultimate solution for IE6 position: fixed problem by Yatindra Saxena

Yatindra Saxena — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:45:07 +0000

@Peter: you can try CSS 3 for this
body {
background-images:url(../images/bg-top.jpg), url(../images/bg-bottom.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: center top, center bottom;
}

but the worst thing is it will not work in older browsers.