🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Oct 6, 2017 12:37 PM UTC:
But if the code to serve that purpose is nearly the same for nearly every page, the proper design would be to locate it in a separate file, and just put a link to that file in all those pages.
That's a good idea. Stick to offering contructive solutions, and you will be good.
What do you think requires more functionality on this page, the menu bar, or the interactive diagram for Golden Age Chess? Now take a look at the page source. The diagram makes up about 25 short lines of that, the menu bar about 500 sometimes excessively long lines (line 11-59 for in-page style definitions, and line 80-513 for the HTML and JavaScript).
To be precise, code should be measured in bytes, not lines. My JavaScript for the menu takes up 7474 bytes, while your betza.js file takes up 57,438 bytes. Your comment with the Golden Age Chess diagram adds 1237 bytes.
The HTML source of all pages here seems about 10 times as long as one can reasonably expect from their content.
That doesn't seem to be based on accurate measurement, and it is probably incorrect.
Indeed. This is a bit like explaining to a person whose house you just set on fire how chemical reactions with oxygen work, so that what he is seeing is a quite natural phenomenon, and nothing to worry about.
That is a completely disingenuous analogy. I was explaining why there was no more room for the banner ad when there appeared to be more room for it.
The point is of course that it is wrong to require that the banner is centered when there is obviously not enough room to center it in-line with the logo.
That is a matter of personal preference, not of morality. Do not imagine that every personal preference of yours carries the weight of morality.
What is so important about centering that banner that justifies it taking extra vertical space pushing content off screen? Who would die if it was right-justified instead?
Who would die if you had to scroll the screen? Do you know how ridiculous you sound?
No website I have ever seen does this with its header.
So what? Argumentum ad populum doesn't work with me.
That's a good idea. Stick to offering contructive solutions, and you will be good.
To be precise, code should be measured in bytes, not lines. My JavaScript for the menu takes up 7474 bytes, while your betza.js file takes up 57,438 bytes. Your comment with the Golden Age Chess diagram adds 1237 bytes.
That doesn't seem to be based on accurate measurement, and it is probably incorrect.
That is a completely disingenuous analogy. I was explaining why there was no more room for the banner ad when there appeared to be more room for it.
That is a matter of personal preference, not of morality. Do not imagine that every personal preference of yours carries the weight of morality.
Who would die if you had to scroll the screen? Do you know how ridiculous you sound?
So what? Argumentum ad populum doesn't work with me.