"Python Redesign" (fwd)

[David Mertz]

|> <tim at pollenation.net> wrote:
|> 1) it's an image

|mertz at gnosis.cx (David Mertz) writes:
|> You keep writing this; not just to me, but on c.l.py too.  I can't quite
|> figure out what relevance you perceive this fact to have.

jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) wrote previously:
|I guess because people, seeing the .html file extension in the URL,
|assumed that resizing fonts and sensible scaling to your browser
|window should work (obviously, the .html extension is rather
|misleading).  In fact, you were one of those people, David, IIRC --

Kinda.  I *did* assume it was a real HTML page when I first looked at it
(I tried clicking on the links).  But I realized it was an image before
I posted anything.

But I was mistaken about the sort of image it was.  I assumed Parkin had
written some HTML (maybe with some tool), then taken a screenshot of
that as rendered in some browser.  Specifically, I imagined that the
underlying HTML had fixed pixel-based "width=" attributes for those
boxes/tables.  In retrospect, the assumption about pixel-based widths
wouldn't actually follow from the idea it was a screenshot.

However, that's all moot apparently, since the picture seems to have
been drawn directly in some graphics application, without any HTML
having ever been created.  It certainly seems like a weird approach to
me; it also makes the question of whether pixel- or percentage-based
widths were used meaningless.

|> I *am* probably the most widely read writer on Python topics

|So, as you say, we're *definitely* not trying to sell Python to *you*,
|David.  <wink>

No... my point was more that I am already in the business of trying to
"sell" Python, in some sense.  I write articles and books (well, one so
far) in part to encourage new developers to select Python, versus some
other language/technology.

Btw. In my remark (which I wrote privately to Parkin, but posted after
he posted a response that quoted mine), I think I failed to give proper
respects to my excellent colleagues Cameron Laird and Uche Ogbuji, both
of whom are also very widely read with similar articles to mine.  I only
claim "most" because Cameron and Uche--being smarter than I--are a bit
less narrow in what they cover (i.e. more outside of Python).

Yours, David...

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