In real work, I always use EM for italics, STRONG for selection. And SMALL. I decided to update their knowledge in HTML + decided to look towards the HTML 5 So, xHTML 1.0 strict, as the language of separating flies and cutlets, and allowed the following inline elements related to the text: I, EM, B, STRONG, BIG, SMALL here, I came ac...
Will auto_ptr be deprecated in incoming C++ standard? Should unique_ptr be used for ownership transfer instead of shared_ptr? If unique_ptr is not in the standard, then do I need to use shared_ptr instead? ...
Is there currently a group working on the next C standard (by next, I mean after C99)? If so, what are the features likely to make it in? ...
Every time I build an ecommerce application I need to invest a considerable amount of time into categorising products. Factors such as ambiguoty, duplication and subjectivity can often lead to rework and wasted time. Are there any standards available (such as ISOs) that can be applied to categorising products like computer or car parts ...
This is a stupid question. :) [EDIT: stupid or not, this turned out to be a C++ peculiarity question, see UPDATE_2] Suppose we have: int a = 0; // line 1 int b = ++a; // line 2 What happens in line 2 is (note, numbers are just markers and do not specify exact order): = [1: write result of (3) to result of (2)...
I've tried searching for the answer to this question all kinds of ways but with no success. Is there a list of "standard" names for fields in an HTML form? For example, "First Name", "Home Phone", etc. I suspect there's probably not an official standard but more of a loose convention. I am creating a form and if possible I'd like it to ...
Are there any software versioning standards? Or i can change version of my product, when i have made some changes to it? Is there any percentage in changes, by which i can say, what version this product will have? ...
I always thought the following types are "fundamental types", so I thought my answer to this question would be correct, but surprisingly it got downvoted... Searching the web, I found this. So, IBM says as well those types are fundamental types.. Well how do you interpret the Standard? Are the following types (and similar types), "fun...
I'm running into a weird issue that I'm struggling to figure out what's causing the page to break. I have an internal website that's still under development (thus no link to the page) that works great in Firefox and Internet Explorer 8 in IE 7 Standards mode. But when I force it to IE 8 Standards mode the page will only display the tit...
Why do browser vendors make their own css properties, even they know these properties will not pass the w3c validation before approved and added by w3c? What is the purpose? Is for their own testing, or for web developers, or to demonstrate browser capabilities to the world and to the W3C organizations and to CSS development team of W3C...
BTW,what's the latest version of UML,and how often does it release a new version? ...
Assuming a method with the following signature bool TryXxxx(object something, out int toReturn) What is it acceptable for toReturn to be if TryXxxx returns false? In that it's infered that toReturn should never be used if TryXxxx fails does it matter? If toReturn was a nulable type, then it would make sense to return null. But int i...
I'm taking over a project and wanted to understand if this is common practice using SOAP. The process that is currently in place I have to query all the values before I do an update cause I need to pass back all the values that are not being updated. Does this sound right? Example Values: fname=phill lname=pafford address=123 main phon...
Hi In DOM, is it OK to refer to an element's attributes like this: var universe = document.getElementById('universe'); universe.origin = 'big_bang'; universe.creator = null; universe.style.deterministic = true; ? My deep respect for objects and their privacy, and my sense that things might go terribly wrong if I am not careful,...
I just came across a SQL statement that uses AS to alias tables, like this: SELECT all, my, stuff FROM someTableName AS a INNER JOIN someOtherTableName AS b ON a.id = b.id What I'm used to seeing is: SELECT all, my, stuff FROM someTableName a INNER JOIN someOtherTableName b ON a.id = b.id I'm assuming there's no difference ...
Where can I find information on how to properly document a programming language? What I mean is that there seems to be a standard way to document code. php.net and api.jquery.com seem to document there code the a similar way. For example, the trim() description on php.net. string trim ( string $str [, string $charlist ] ) And lik...
I'm doing some tests with new features of CSS3, but this combination only works in lastest versions of Chrome and Firefox, but not in Safari or Opera: box-shadow: inset 0px -10px 20px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0px -10px 20px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); -moz-box-shadow: inset 0px -10px 20px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0...
The requirements for PCI standards include installing a firewall, restrict physical access to servers, using and regularly updating antivirus and malware software etc as outlined here If you host your application in the cloud , how can you ensure that you meet these PCI requirements ...
We have all seen countless instances of forms with a select drop down having one of it's options as "Other" and on choosing that option, we get to see a input text box (which was hidden all along) asking us to type in our input. Is there a better way to implement this? Are there plugins out there which will let me do this better? Or ar...
Checking few RDBMS I find that things like SELECT COUNT (a), SUM (b) FROM TABLE are allowed (notice space between aggregate functions and parenthesis). Could anyone provide a pointer to SQL standard itself where this is defined (any version will do)? EDIT: The above works in postgres, mysql needs set sql_mode = "IGNORE_SPACE"; as ...