HTML Review Time, Part Deux
Driving on the Moon (via The Commons)
Time for the second installment of interesting observations and ideas from my relearning of HTML! I nearly lost a chunk of this when I removed it from the first post and then cleared my clipboard accidentally. Luckily I still had it up in a preview of the post at the time.
First off let me just say, thank the flying spaghetti monster that frames are basically gone from the internet. Who ever liked frames? Horribly ugly, bad for SEO, bad for usability and did I mention ugly? At least iframes aren't so bad, but also frequently used in rather obnoxious ways. I will admit that there are have been a few times I've seen both frames and iframes used well, but they are few and far between.
Moving on, being able to use RGB colour values for elements was new to me. Maybe this was around 12 years ago, but from my memory you could only use a limited set of named colours or HEX codes. So instead of "red" or "#FF0000" you can use "rgb(255,0,0)". I think I might like the HEX code option bettter, but it's nice to have options.
HTML Review Time! Learning what I mostly already know.
Some girls in gas masks (from The Commons)
I did most of my HTML review a few weeks ago when I was first starting out this project, with the intention of posting about it rather sooner. It didn't take that long to go through the W3 Schools HTML Tutorial since I really hadn't forgotten or missed too much, having needed to use HTML at least occasionally over the years.
I'm not going to spend a ton of time going over the whole thing. Instead, I'm going to quickly cover some of the things I learned or otherwise thought interesting.
I learned quite awhile back that paragraph tags (<p>) need to be closed now. For anyone out there whose fairly new to HTML, this was no always the case. Along with this, "empty" elements (tags which don't have any closing tag, like the break or image tags) have to have a closing slash following a space at the end of the tag before the >. This is because of the introduction of XHTML, which requires all tags to be closed. Along with the closing all tags requirement, you now have to use lower case for all tags. For some reason when I did HTML in highschool I used all uppercase. Why did I do this? No idea, but it didn't matter, so I did. I have some vague recollection of other people doing it too fairly often.
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