Comments on: On The Outside http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/ Things that Eric A. Meyer, CSS expert, writes about on his personal Web site; it's largely Web standards and Web technology, but also various bits of culture, politics, personal observations, and other miscellaneous stuff Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:30:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: David House http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-852 David House Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:22:58 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-852 Hang on… you honestly didn’t know that?

Some people. :)

]]> By: codeman38 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-821 codeman38 Wed, 08 Sep 2004 15:54:50 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-821 restiffbard: I think it’s rather amusing that there was so much tautology about tautology, m’self. ::grin::

And yeah, I too find CSS far easier to comprehend than quantum physics.

]]> By: Hercules http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-820 Hercules Wed, 08 Sep 2004 14:03:19 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-820 I might not understand everything in the Musings site (my Univercity life starts in a month, heh), but it’s like the best example of a non-designer having a well-written page, well done there. As for meyerweb? It’s funny to think that almost a year ago I didn’t even know how to write a table in HTML but after some very big steps there is nothing (except some rare CSS2 syntax here and there) that I cannot understand. I should add that css/edge was pretty helpful in making my webpage too :)

]]> By: Oliver http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-817 Oliver Wed, 08 Sep 2004 07:02:19 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-817 Well, I did the math. If there are 6 billion people on the planet, then 0.0005 percent leaves us with 30’000 people.

As much as I feel being blessed being a member of such an exclusive club, I hope there are much more webdesigners on the planet who kinda do understand what you’re saying here or in your books. Or would understand if they read it.

]]> By: Neil M http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-816 Neil M Wed, 08 Sep 2004 03:16:10 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-816 The popup is a Mozilla dialog box. The site isn’t popping it up using javascript or anything. It uses MathML and in order for moz to display math on the page, it needs the fonts with the square root images and stuff.

]]> By: Lachlan Hunt http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-815 Lachlan Hunt Wed, 08 Sep 2004 00:13:14 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-815 I don’t see what’s so hard to understand about it? Any average person who’s spent the last 30 years of their life studying quantum physics and learning about anti-de Sitter space, Einstein’s theory of relativity, string-theory, the effects of a black hole’s gravity on the time-space continuum and various other mysteries of the universe, should be able to understand that completely; and I mean, seriously, who hasn’t? :-)

]]> By: Robert Lofthouse http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-814 Robert Lofthouse Tue, 07 Sep 2004 21:49:33 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-814 That paragraph hurt my head, a lot.

*Digs out his copy of ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’*

God bless Bill Bryson.

]]> By: restiffbard http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-813 restiffbard Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:56:58 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-813 Same thing happened to me a few days ago. I hit a site with an interview of someone who is apparently very bright. I was right with him till he started using the word tautology in several concurrent sentences. Unfortunately tautology was the only word I was familiar with. After that my head just popped off.

]]> By: Jacques Distler http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-812 Jacques Distler Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:37:00 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-812 Anne wrote:

I think Jacques Distler even might follow this weblog

I’m not a regular reader, I confess (so many weblogs, so little time …), but I’ve always enjoyed Eric’s site whenever I visit. What little I know about CSS, I learned from him.

Shane wrote:

I got a popup message …

That’s nothing compared to the dunning popup you get when you visit my site in IE.

(And the Math fonts are a free download. Whaddya complaining about? :-)

]]> By: Anthony Bosio http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-811 Anthony Bosio Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:24:52 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-811 Wow…I suddenly feel better…or even proud…that only 5-10% of what I read on meyerweb is effectively gibberish to me. ;-)

]]> By: Anne http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-810 Anne Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:17:21 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-810 I think Jacques Distler even might follow this weblog, since he is interested in markup and related things as well. (He is currently the only example of a valid use case for XHTML.)

However, this joke has been made before. ;-)

]]> By: Shane http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-808 Shane Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:46:11 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-808 I got a popup message when I went to the site saying that I needed to download about 6 math fonts in order to view the site correctly. Definitely special interest!

]]> By: Gordon Freeman http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-806 Gordon Freeman Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:40:56 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-806 Check out his comments in a day or 2. I wonder if they’ll get the references… :)

]]> By: Bryan http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-805 Bryan Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:40:43 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/07/on-the-outside/#comment-805 Whoa. Yea, I completely understood him /*looks up and away */

I think I will stick with the basic Marketing Jargon I got my degree in :)

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