semantic

how to use jquery's semantic tabs without the div switching functionality?

I need to have the tabs as rendered by jQuery's semantic tabs (semtabs) but without the functionality that shows one div and hides the others. Is there a simple way to prevent that functionality to happen? The visual style is the result of several css styles plus some JS dynamic manipulation of styles and properties that would be t...

Google Semantic results question

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mark+zuckerberg+crunchbase Guys, check out that search, in particular the first result's url. Crunchbase.com > People, and thus the people links to the /people section of the site. How are they achieving it? I know Google algorithm is intelligent and looks for links and then makes the assumptions itself...

Opinion Mining - What Database Type?

Hi guys, I am entering a project to make a Opinion Mining (Data Mining -> Web Mining -> Opinion Mining) to get semantic orientation of the words contained. We will use a crawler to get the pages opinion. Now the question is, what type of DataBase should I use (OO, Relational, hierachycal, etc), is best to use in this type of project. ...

How different are the semantics between Python and JavaScript?

Both these languages seem extremely similar to me. Although Python supports actual classes instead of being prototype-based, in Python classes are not all that different from functions that generate objects containing values and functions, just as you'd do in JavaScript. On the other hand, JavaScript only supports floating-point number...

RoR define meaningful relations between two models

i want to define a many-to-many relation in a rails project. how is the best way to give the individual relations different meanings? +------------+ has many +-------------+ | | ---------------------> | | | person | | project | | | <--------------------- | ...

How to markup a ladder/draw

I need to markup a ladder for upcoming tournaments, and I can't find any way to mark it up semantically. The only way I've seen so far is to mark it up as a table, and I'd like to avoid that at all costs. Any ideas? ...

Is <dl> element from XHTML 1.0 adapted to display a resource tag list or a subscription feed ?

I wonder if the <dl> element from XHTML 1.0 is semantically valid to display a resource tag list, like that: <dl> <dt>Tags</dt> <dd><a href="">Lorem</a></dd> <dd><a href="">Ipsum</a></dd> <dd><a href="">Dolor</a></dd> </dl> Or with a subscription feed, as the code bellow shows: <dl> <dt>Feeds</dt> <dd><a href=...

What is this C++ Syntax when declaring a class?

I occasionally run into this type of syntax when looking through open source code and was wondering what it's for, or what it's even called for that matter. I have crawled the internet many a times before but simple contrived examples never had it nor explained it. It looks like this class SomeIdentifier ClassName { ... } My quest...

Is Dreamweaver "upwards" compatible with manually created semantic html?

A prospective client has a site with pages done in Dreamweaver(tm). I don't have Dreamweaver(tm), never use it, and have in the past have seen some spaghetti (html) code on pages created with it. As a result, I'm wondering: if I create clean sections of semantic html, will Dreamweaver continue to be able to edit it when the client wish...

Meaningful XML from MS Word Plugin

I have a requirement to build an MS Word 2007 plugin that provides a button which when clicked uploads the Word document to a webservice as XML. So far this doesn't seem to be all that problematic but the customer has the additional requirement that they want the XML to be meaningful. They are recording formatted text but want certain a...

What tag should be used for short text like "back to top" , "Read more" etc?

What tag should be used for short text like. Back to top Read more is <p> appropirate or something else should be use. because these are not paragraph. Which is more semantic <p><a href="#mainWrapper">Back to top</a></p> or <a href="#mainWrapper">Back to top</a> or <div><a href="#mainWrapper">Back to top</a></div> ...

What is “E153 Updatable queries with subqueries” in the SQL standard?

I don't have the (expensive) SQL standard at hand; what are updatable queries in SQL core/foundation? I see that PostgreSQL doesn't support them, but some other databases do; can you point me to the documentation on how they work in those databases? PostgreSQL has query rewriting and updatable views with the rule system; is this very d...

what do the words platform and api exactly mean?

i've bought a book "learning the java SE 6 platform". i wonder what the word platform really means. cause isn't it just a bunch of classes that i can use. the JDK 1.6 node in Netbeans under Libraries. And what is API? isn´t it the same thing as platform. But doesnt library mean the same thing..a bunch of classes with some superclasses a...

Yet another dynamic data model question...

I have a project that requires user-defined attributes for a particular object at runtime (Lets say a person object in this example). The project will have many different users (1000 +), each defining their own unique attributes for their own sets of 'Person' objects. (Eg - user #1 will have a set of defined attributes, which will ...

Semantic Markup and Forms

Currently, my form looks like this: <label for="comment">Comment:</label> <textarea name="comment" id="comment" rows="6" cols="20"></textarea><br /> <label for="checker">Check the box:</label> <input type="checkbox" name="checker" id="checker" value="ON" /> Should these then be converted to <dt>/<dd> since they're somewhat definition...

Semantically correct sitemap in HTML

I am trying to develop/design a main menu/site map for our website. The brief is that the menu should look like a directory tree and each item on the menu should either expand to reveal more menu items or link to another page on the site. On top of this, every item should have the functionality to be added to the sites "Favourites" app...

Adding strong emphasis to an img tag. Semantics

Hi there. I'm actually coding a website and a doubt came to me. I have a list of images (it's an artist portfolio, so it should be images), some of which have a "Featured" badge. Is it semantically correct to wrap the img into a strong tag instead of using a class="featured"? Will it add strong emphasis to the image? Reading the W3C sp...

What is the semantic difference between encipher and encrypt?

Title is self explaining. ...

Why unneeded xhtml and js, axd comes in Asp.net pages ?

Can anyone explain why it comes? it makes source code lengthy and it will affect to site SEo also. Site is using Sitecore CMS Is this fault of .net framework? or Sitecore CMS? is PHP and other technology better to produce clean, semantic and W3C valid code? these extra info in header (what is the use of these) <head> <meta name=...

Getting Started With SPARQL, Sandboxing

I'm a firm believer in learning a platform or technology by playing with it. So I've kind of glanced at SPARQL and thus far haven't really gotten to into it because it just ... looks daunting (as does everything at first). I'd like an environment with a couple of documents that I can cross reference and query. My temptation is to do SQL...