Baldrick, your plans are as cunning as the plan Napoleon came up with at Waterloo.arborint wrote:Sounds like it was a Cunning Plan ...d11wtq wrote:Someone I know was picked up last year by a (less fortunate) chick with the line "do you wanna watch black adder?" He thought it to be a perfectly innocent and generous request until he got back
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Darn you guys 
Well... the story about the chick. She's a friend that moved to japan to be with husband in the airforce. I was teaching her online.. for fun.
Not an exciting story eh?
And world of warcraft.... never played it.
I'm not much of a gamer.
I'm still kind of mad about the "new" (guess its not so new) way of teaching people HTML. I motion that the board should change the B I U bbtags to something more "newish". Perhaps [strong] and [em].
Well... the story about the chick. She's a friend that moved to japan to be with husband in the airforce. I was teaching her online.. for fun.
Not an exciting story eh?
And world of warcraft.... never played it.
I'm still kind of mad about the "new" (guess its not so new) way of teaching people HTML. I motion that the board should change the B I U bbtags to something more "newish". Perhaps [strong] and [em].
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I think they should be teaching the "new" stuff. What's the point in teach people things are deprecated? Sort of 
I mean, we don't still teach people to use $name or $HTTP_POST_VARS['name'] instead of $_POST['name'], and then once they've learnt it tell them it's actually deprected and they should use $_POST
I think learning CSS/XHTML and standards is actually an easier thing to do if you're coming at it from a fresh perspective with no habits to break out of. Once you've learned it one way it's difficult to train your mind to snap out of thinking that way.
I mean, we don't still teach people to use $name or $HTTP_POST_VARS['name'] instead of $_POST['name'], and then once they've learnt it tell them it's actually deprected and they should use $_POST
I think learning CSS/XHTML and standards is actually an easier thing to do if you're coming at it from a fresh perspective with no habits to break out of. Once you've learned it one way it's difficult to train your mind to snap out of thinking that way.
You didn't read my links.scottayy wrote:I'm still kind of mad about the "new" (guess its not so new) way of teaching people HTML. I motion that the board should change the B I U bbtags to something more "newish". Perhaps [strong] and [em].
Bold and italic are still valid. They aren't *replaced* by strong and em.
Think of it this way. If I said, "I want to say this sentence REALLY LOUDLY", thats a strong tag.
If I said, "I don't need this sentence to be spoken loudly, but I want it to appear in bold so it looks better", guess what - thats a bold tag.
See the difference?
That said, yes, more often than not, a strong tag would be more appropriate than a bold tag, so it would be an improvement.
But phpbb is far behind on a number of improvements.
I wouldn't. I agree - its rather screwed up as a teaching reference.arborint wrote: 1. Why would you add style="" to a <font> tag? Styling should go on an actual container, not a deprecated formatting tag. Would you do <b style="font-weight: normal;"> ?