It means that if you accidentally break something in your draft, your browser (if compliant; most are, except Internet Explorer) will tell you:
- that you really did break something, and
- what that thing is.
Cognitive Conga: a blog
Dancing the conceptual kerfuffle shuffle
Ratiocination, n. An instance of [reasoning]. Also: a conclusion arrived at by reasoning. Doubt the applicability of this at your peril leisure.
Archive for the ‘Life is language’ Category
Why serving XHTML as application/xhtml+xml is cool
Sunday, February 1st, 2009Personifications of temperaments
Saturday, January 31st, 2009It wasn’t until I read Edwin Muir’s introduction to Kafka’s Amerika that it occurred to me that the protagonists of both this novel and The Trial might have been intended to be personifications of temperaments.
Lipstick on a pig
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Barack Obama treats his supporters as reasonably intelligent people. He expects, naturally enough, that when he characterises Bush’s policies as being like “a pig” – not beautiful – and McCain’s policies as being like a pig with lipstick on – supposedly changed for the better, but actually still not beautiful – at a rally at which much of the audience will be supporters of his, they will understand his meaning. It is, in this case, not a terribly complex meaning to understand.
John McCain, on the other hand, either is stupid or else treats his supporters as stupid (neither of which make him a laudable candidate for U.S. President). If McCain did believe Obama was characterising Sarah Palin as a pig, then he (McCain) is stupid and incomprehending. Alternatively, and more probably, if McCain understood that Obama was not characterising Palin as a pig and was not making a sexist remark, but chose to characterise Obama as doing so anyway, then he (McCain) was calculating that his supporters would be stupid enough to believe an obvious and childish lie, and was also willing to publicly tell that lie.
To paraphrase Aneurin Bevan (and Martin Rowson, whose work alerted me to Bevan’s phrase): if John McCain didn’t understand what Obama was saying, then McCain is too stupid to be a good President; if he did, then he’s too evil to be a good President.
