Fairly poor editorial practices...
May. 13th, 2011 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsOkay, that's just stupid. I am a regular reader and do-er of Web Designer Magazine's tutorials.
This month's big cover story was about HTML 5, and all of the coming niftyness that accompanies it. The way you active HTML5 is to specify a certain DOCTYPE at the top of the document, and every professional developer knows to specify a given DOCTYPE. This ensures that the HTML interpreter will "do the right thing" and for the past two years or so it's been okay.
I was working my way through the first tutorial in the magazine, "Build a side-scrolling web page with jQuery navigation!" Since I was doing the exercise myself, I was wondering why my pages didn't come out the way the tutorial said they would.
I looked in the tutorial folder. First, they didn't specify a DOCTYPE. I had (being, you know, a professional and all.) So when I ripped out the DOCTYPE, the tutorial started working.
Second, despite this being about "Side Scrolling," the tutorial is entitled "Vertical Scrolling" on the CD-ROM.
This month's big cover story was about HTML 5, and all of the coming niftyness that accompanies it. The way you active HTML5 is to specify a certain DOCTYPE at the top of the document, and every professional developer knows to specify a given DOCTYPE. This ensures that the HTML interpreter will "do the right thing" and for the past two years or so it's been okay.
I was working my way through the first tutorial in the magazine, "Build a side-scrolling web page with jQuery navigation!" Since I was doing the exercise myself, I was wondering why my pages didn't come out the way the tutorial said they would.
I looked in the tutorial folder. First, they didn't specify a DOCTYPE. I had (being, you know, a professional and all.) So when I ripped out the DOCTYPE, the tutorial started working.
Second, despite this being about "Side Scrolling," the tutorial is entitled "Vertical Scrolling" on the CD-ROM.
