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It can do. My rusty, atrophied, residual HTML knowledge says that HTML is merely the structure of the document, whereas CSS would be formatting. Or the other way around. Or something.

Well, it can contain no formatting information, if you do everything with style sheets.

Obviously an HTML document can contain formatting data, but the done thing nowadays is to put all the formatting in a seperate CSS file and link to that file from the HTML document.

Maybe it means that technically an HTML document contains only the markup as the name suggests. The actual formatting information resides in the browser based on the standards. Sounds like some silly pedantry, though.

I'd go further, and say that not only can you, but everyone strongly recommends that you do, and many sites achieve that. The sources to microsoft.com and google.com don't seem to have any inline styling.

Really, all formatting on the web should be done with huge numbers of 1px by 1px gifs and vast amounts of nested tables.

And served up from steam-powered computers that live on zepplins and are maintained by men wearing greatcoats, elaborate pocketwatches, and huge brass welding goggles?

My new difference-engine can store 18 seconds of the latest operetta on a mere 7,000 punched cards!

I was being mischievous.

Basically, for dull reasons we need a product that can add iXBRL tagsto a word document. The output of such process is html. Upon import from word, one product does not recognise tabs so reformats tabbed rows as data [space] data. The html output therefore replicates this, screwing up the formatting. My concern is therefore that said product is sub optimal (although all such products will probably do this, other there are products which deal with tags at the outset, hence needing no conversion, and no formatting issues).

However, I believe someone has mixed up XBRL and iXBRL and assumes that the output is XML and not html. XML doesn't contain formatting data, html can.

NervousPete was born to be a difference engine operator, just one hundred years too late and in the wrong timeline.

I lost 7.5st over 18 months with Weightwatchers' help, if that makes you feel any better. I wouldn't say it's a plan though, more of an assist with knowing what's what, and some structure. But it is terribly easy to lose weight when you run out of Points scale after about 2 or 3 questions.

Coincidentally, the first thing I've bought for my move into Hel's is a set of digital scales because Hel, despite being a skinny thing, cooks about 7 portions of carbs per person.

The only place it didn't go from was my boobs.

You want to be careful being pedantic on this here forum, because an XSL document is a valid XML document...

He says it can't. I am ambivalent because my argument is html can.

Incidentally, this is me talking to the head of IT.

Yup, if ever there was a man meant to be Head Analytical Artificer at the Ministry of Computational Machines, it was NervousPete. I can see him, sitting at his desk, fixing a Byron & Babbage Co. cross reflexiratoring gland whilst gazing out the window at the steam omnibuses chugging down Whitehall.

What would I be 100 years ago in a different timeline?

Dunno, but you'd have been the scourge of the steam powered bulletin boards.

Jack the Steampunk Ripper.

I hope that Mr Dave would be my Tiny Cyber Tim.

We need to put an end to the boom-and-bust dietary cycle.

Stop trying to turn us on, it won't work.

You'd be a low level shirkster and magsman, earning a fadge or two with some bug-hunting racket, before slumming at some chat-ridden flophouse with a glim-stricken dollymop.

Awesome work, chap. That'll do to convince me they're not entirely useless, then

Why is everyone writing "an HTML", is this another in joke i'm missing?

Depends if you pronounce it 'aitch' or 'haitch'. I'm in the former camp, personally, so 'an' is correct.

I don't know what that means, but it sounds so dirty I can see my face reflected back off my hard on.

Victorian Slang is awesome!

And the people in the second camp don't even register as proper people to me, the weirdos.

That's a hell of a loss mate. Well done.

Blimey Bik, that's 1.5 Daves!

That's the weight of my fridge! When full!

That was also more than 6 years ago; over the next 5 I went back up to 18st, then everything fell to bits and I only consumed bagels, Philly and beer for 8 months and got back to 14st. That's not a diet I'd recommend. And now I'm eating again and am struggling to keep myself under 14st 7 but hey ho.

but the H stands for Hyper, so it's an a not an an regardless

Unless you pronounce hyper as eyeper?

Er - when you read it out loud do you say 'aitch-tee-emm-ell', or do you actually say 'HyperText Markup Language'?

If the former, you're wrong. If the latter, you're a nutter.

As long as you're saying "aitch" and not "haitch" I'm willing to let it slide.

edit: oh, you already said that. Hi5 sort of.

I do the former, when I read it out loud I read it as H T M L, what is the other option? "utumel"?
but the H is an aitch when spoken, and when spoken it is preceeded with an "an"

However, when I write HTML and it needs to be preceeded, then an A goes in front, because that is proper like.

Nah it's not. It's only right to put an 'A' before it if you don't use the initialism at all.

Hold on - you say "An HTML" but you write "A HTML"? You're definitely a nutter.

Selfridges stir up a shirt storm by placing tranny Frank Sidebottoms in their window.



Permission wasn't sought.

They'll play the Betty Boop card.

Or say "fuck it, he died penniless" and chuck a pony at the estate in settlement. Job done.

Of course

Written and spoken language are significantly different, some people even go so far as to distinguish them as completely different languages, but I think that is a trifle extreme
For one thing, written language doesn't have an accent

Someone call Mr. Chris. We need his crown.

Appen thas reet tha nors.

The lady responsible for it went to Manchester Uni so there's little wiggle room. + the eyes, its all in the eyes.

It is probably intended as a tribute but it has backfired somewhat.

Knee jerk reaction of the week 104A "SkyNewsBreak: Home Sec also announces a ban on toner cartridges over 500gms carried in hand luggage:"

I'm just waiting for the bra bomber to strike, then i'll look forward to flying more...

I may be vanishing for a while...just about to reinstall windows

I don't think it has backfired in the slightest. How many Selfridges customers would be even aware of someone who was, to be fair, an unfunny comedian of the 80s/90s, let alone likely get upset about it?

I honestly doubt it was a tribute, either.

I have 4 fish portions in the oven at the moment. 2 of them say they take 25 minutes at gas mark 7, the other 2 say they take 35 minutes at 8. So I put them in at 7 and have been checking them every 7-8 minutes or so. After 15 minutes, the ones that are supposed to take 35 minutes are more cooking quicker than the others!

Most odd!

Malc

Seems to have worked help my girlfriend lose a bit when she tried the WW. It's quite a clever plan really, and doesn't require much adjustments to your normal day to day routines (much less than some medications, in my experience).

My weight loss plan incidentally was to end up with a spot of IBS. As I had to eat everything at set meal-times due to the medicine I was given (so, no small snacks biscuits with a cup of coffee, for example), so I lost 8lb in weight in less than a month, and kept it off. Now, I haven't been overweight since I was 12/13, but every little helps, so they say.