Thursday, October 11, 2007

So, what this editor, Quanta, does is to put HTML tags with text you type into Kwrite. It looks pretty much the same as the editor for Kdevelop, where I just wrote a little perl script as a project. I could write this as a project as well, but unless I want version control, why bother?

A list of things to do:

This editor is a little intelligent about tags. Setting up my background color is done with a body section in the style section for the whole page.You inset the "div" to justify right and left between the open and close paragraph tags.

Yesterday I saw Maureen Young at Rehab. I spoke with her about my dissatisfaction with SAF. Their lack of progress is in part due to a reluctance by corporate HR departments to deal with SAF clients as disabled people, but more likely as health care liabilities. This lead to speculation that layoffs are due more to health care liability than to lack of performance. This would be highly illegal, but who can prove that the hidden agenda of a boss or his management is to jettison all employees who had health care issues. We already know that insurers are flat out refusing to cover certain types of people they judge as high risk. The failure of the Congress to do something about health care costs 12 years ago has far reaching consequences in illegal acts by business.

One complaint I have about nearly every IDE I've encountered is that few have rule sets for the languages they support, or concise documentation. It is as if you need to have a syntax document anyway, and so why use the IDE if something like good old EMACS would suffice for the mechanics of editing. The only good reason to have an IDE for web pages is to be able to review the output in the integrated browser when the editor is not WYSIWYG. I still think of HTML essentially as text, perfering to add white space to delineate tags even though it is ignored by the browser.

One last thing to report. I was able to restore the master boot record I used with Mandriva 2007, which boots on /dev/hda5 and add to it the boot params for this install of Slackware 12 which is on /dev/hda3, replacing a Knoppix install that had X11 server failing. I had copied the little dir I ad on that install and was able to get at it off another partition.The LILO that came with Mandriva appears to be up-rev with the one that comes with Slack. In any case I can now boot Windows and two versions of Linux on this laptop.

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