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Comment HTML5 fails to cover 40% of users (Score 1) 516

Internet Explorer 8 is the newest Internet Explorer that will ever be supported on Windows XP. Internet Explorer 9 is the newest Internet Explorer that will ever be supported on Windows Vista. Internet Explorer prior to 10 does not support form validation, nor does any version of Safari for iOS. In fact, as of right now, more than 40 percent of users are using web browsers that don't fully support HTML5 validation. Besides, to what extent does HTML5 validation support interrelationships between fields, such as "exactly one of these two fields must be filled in and the other must be blank", or "if element 1 has a value matching rule A, apply rule B to element 2; otherwise, apply rule C to element 2"?

Comment This majority is disputed (Score 1) 516

Anonymous Coward wrote:

That's what a majority of us voted them in to do

This majority is disputed. Besides, one needs not only a majority of the House but also a majority of the majority party just to get a bill introduced. So if 100% of the minority party and 49% of the majority party favor something, it doesn't get to the House floor.

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Comment Escape reality. Don't half-escape it. (Score 0) 288

Don't want reality? Play games set in a fantasy setting. From the featured article: "the ICRC is clearly more concerned about battlefield simulations such as Call of Duty than particle-beam-wielding spaceships or ax-swinging dwarves." It links to the ICRC's Q&A, which mentions that it "is not suggesting that this apply to games that portray more fictional scenarios such as medieval fantasy or futuristic wars in outer space."

Comment REDMAP (Score 3) 516

Did a nationwide majority vote for a Republican representative, or is the Republican majority in the House purely the result of gerrymandered single-member districts? When you get a chance, search for Redistricting Majority Project, a publicized instance of recent GOP gerrymandering.

Comment Benefit of client-side prevalidation (Score 1) 516

HTML forms reload the whole page if the user entered a letter into a box intended to take only numbers. JavaScript applies basic sanity checks to entered values before sending them to the server for authoritative validation, saving time and server load and bandwidth. But I agree that 50+ JavaScript files are a bit too heavy.

Comment Chicken Little(TM)(C) (Score 1) 416

A religious fanatic will always find *some* sign that armageddon is coming, no matter what.

And Jehovah's Witnesses will claim that it's been "coming" since the start of WWI in 1914 and rationalize the delay through God's patience with humankind to get the preaching work done.

You can't stop Chicken Little from being Chicken Little.

You can if The Walt Disney Company sues other studios that adapt the same fable on trumped-up allegations of infringement of copyrights and trademarks related to its 1943 and 2005 films.

Comment Re:When your boss sees growth in non-M$ systems (Score 1) 262

If that's possible then you use a lnguage that's well supported on other platforms.

So what should one do when there exists no language that all relevant platforms support well? One could invent a new language and implement a compiler for it that emits code in each platform's preferred language. Or one could compile an existing language into a supported language, such as with the C-to-JavaScript compiler Emscripten. But would you find that that practical?

Even then, portability is only one aspect. I'm not going to write an Android app entirely in C just to make porting to iPhone easier. I'd be losing too much of the Android system that pretty much depends on Java.

So how do you prove that the application logic (not the UI logic) of an Objective-C application for OS X or iOS behaves identically to the application logic of a Java application for Android? For example, to allow cross-platform play of a multi-platform video game, the behavior of the game's physics on all platforms must match, or the games will fall out of sync.

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