The Dreaded XHTML Blog
why does the XHTML man have a fist with five fingers AND a thumb (was this copy checked) ?
Good Afternoon readers, the lesson that became apparent from today’s project is that no matter how much you want to escape it, run, hide in the creative corners of design; XHTML will always find you. The purpose is to really understand how to write in HTML code and I can understand why. In the business world, companies are becoming smaller and more compact, there is not the mega corporations anymore, and even where there are, the projects are divided up into smaller groups. When a project has a completion date that might not be met, everyone has to pitch in and that means even if you are lucky enough to be in the design of the project, thee is the real possibility that you will have to assist in the writing, checking, repairing of your XHTML sheets. DAMN!!!! I should just start out aiming to be the boss!
One thing I was excited about was in the process of attempting to recall code from memory (thank god it was in a group) I did understand more then I thought and perhaps the ‘forgettery’ isn’t better then the memory after all. Not saying it was easy, root canals can be more fun, but it was eye opening. One half closed maybe and squinting, but there you go. I have more work to do and writing code from memory is definitely an avenue of education to travel and learn well.
The technical side of copyright was mentioned as the topic of blog, but not understanding exactly what that means, I understand that everything is copy, pictures, the words used, facts that you are using, all of it. But copyright seems more of branding, you have the rights to use the words that you are saying. But only if they are your own words. If you are writing about something else that has already been written, unless it’s for the use of financial gain, you must pay credit where credit is due. Yet doesn’t everything infringe upon the copy and rights of someone else. If writing a book, quotes must be given credit, pictures must be your own or you may have to pay to use them. The more and more media that is produced, the more copyright becomes blurrier and blurrier, a photo I can understand, but ideas are ‘borrowed’ all the time. Is there criminal prosecution to using someone else’s idea, if it’s original I can understand, but how long does it have to be rehashed and worked over, improved upon and modified before it becomes property of the people?
