I’ve just updated my 25/28mm Dinosaurs and other prehistoric miniatures (not snappy enough?) page with some lovely looking cavemen and ice age beasties from Fenryll.
Via the Cavewars group.
More Ug!
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.Techie post, feel free to skip
Posted on in WWW.A certain site checking service (who have managed to bamboozle a large number of public sector bodies into paying attention to their ‘league tables’) complains about Very True Things because it claims that –
Tag 'del' may not come under tags 'p' or 'div' Tag 'ins' may not come under tags 'p' or 'div'
What’s more it claims that these problems make the page invalid and that its validity checks are carried out in accordance with the HTML 4.01 specification.
Very True Things is XHTML 1.0 not HTML 4.01. What’s more it did at the time of the test contain a deprecated attribute which whilst picked up by said checker was not listed as a validation fail, despite the fact that I use a Strict doctype. Any system that claims to report on validity should at least check the doctype and apply the appropriate rules.
More importantly, ins and del are very odd elements.
As the XHTML DTD says:
<!-- these can occur at block or inline level --> <!ENTITY % misc.inline "ins | del | script">
The HTML DTD is a little more difficult to read as it relies on an SGMLism not much used in HTML:
<!ELEMENT BODY O O (%block;|SCRIPT)+ +(INS|DEL) -- document body -->
But in either case the validator will confirm that ins and del can appear just about anywhere in the document, and can certainly be used within a p and div elements.
So next time your client or boss gets hassled by a salesman from this company (fvgr zbefr) you can tell that they don’t know what they’re talking about and should be ignored.
Little Dinos
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.The oldest Tyrannosauroid is in the news and it’s an odd one – feathered and crested and only 3m long.
Meanwhile a thread on TMP has led to QRF posting photos of some of their 15mm Try-to-survive-asaurus dinos and mammal like reptiles and Stormwalker (another Steve) showing us great work with the QRF Coelophysis and HLBS Co Compsagnathus.
What other prehistorics are available in 15mm? Irregular have some cavemen at least (what else comes in the 15mm Tusk scenario packs?) and some of the old Ral Partha figs seem closer to 15mm than anything else. Any others?
Borg vs. Cybermen
Posted on in Doctor Who.Discussion last night about the new Doctor Who with someone who is a sci-fi geek but not a long term DW fan. Now we all know that the Cybermen came first but are they better?
Opinions please.
Update November 6th 2012: Thank you everyone for your comments over the last seven years. But it looks like an official answer is here in the form of the Assimilation2 comics. So I’m closing comments on this post.
When good browsers disagree
Posted on in Browsers.A followup to my last post about unobtrusive fieldsets and legends. Safari and Konquerer are applying the relative positioning just as Opera does. But they had already removed all indent on the legend as Gecko does. This is a problem as both Opera and Safari are under constant developement and have good CSS support. So how do we distinguish between them?
There are some CSS hacks that cause code to be treated differently by these browsers but instead of relying on poor CSS parsing in older browsers (as in most IE5 hacks) they rely on parts of the CSS spec that aren’t supported yet (e.g. the :lang hack). But Opera 9.1 or Safari 2.1 might well support them, rendering the hack useless.
And it’s not a case of one browser being wrong, legend elements are somewhat peculiar and the default implementation of their presentation can legitimately vary between browsers.
So unless anyone knows a good way to feed different styles to Opera and Safari (that doesn’t rely on browser sniffing, either via JavaScript or server side languages) all I can suggest is that you either use the negative left margin method and accept that Opera will indent the legends, or use the relative positioning method and accept that Safari will outdent the legends. The former method is probably less risky but irks me as an Opera user.
Cross-browser unobtrusive fieldsets and legends
Posted on in WWW.I was tidying up some web pages (Goodbye single column table, hello unordered list; goodbye multiple level one headings, hello heading hierarchy) when I came across a heading followed by a group of checkboxes. Looks like a fieldset with a legend, I thought, but the page design really wouldn’t be helped by the default presentation of these elements in most browsers. So how make to make these elements completely unobtrusive?
Read the rest of this very true thing…
Happy Things
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Doctor Who, Memes, Miniatures, My Life, Sport, TV.As tagged by Littlebun here are ten things that make me happy.
- Lettice
- Being right about stuff
- Wales winning the Six Nations
- Learning new stuff
- Miniatures, especially dinosaurs and spaceships
- The Dalek Song
- Cats
- Drinking beer and talking rubbish with my friends
- Good books
- The sort of television that makes me jump and down with joy because it’s so funny and exciting and clever – for example Doctor Who, Firefly, Farscape
Lovely dinosaury goodness
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures, TV.New stuff from Dragonblood Miniatures. Very, very nice. I hope this (and the mount from their earlier Hunter sculpt) do become available au naturel.
Old stuff from Archive Miniatures available until the end of the month from Discount Hobby.
TMP has set up a discussion board for Prehistoric gaming. One interesting titbit I picked up there is that the rights to DZ Miniatures mammals have been acquired by Stratagem who are/will be making them in resin. Which would be great if Stratagem weren’t one of the most disorganised and uncommunicative outfits around.
Did anyone else see the recent BBC programmes on dinosaurs? The Truth About Kill Dinosaurs from last month was so-so. I have serious doubts about the validity of some of their “scientific” tests. The materials used to create the artificial dinosaurs looked like they had very different properties to actual bone and muscle. The second programme was more interesting as it covered Velociraptors and Ankylosaurs rather than the tired out T. Rex vs Triceratops duel of the first programme. Much more entertaining was the very silly T-Rex: A Dinosaur in Hollywood show on Wednesday.
Great dinos
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.The ever excellent Back of Beyond Times has a gallery of very nicely painted dinosaur miniatures. They’re all from the 1/35 Tamiya Mesozoic Creatures set (unless the T-Rex and Oviraptor are the Copplestone Casting clones, but I don’t think so).
We got a very nice daylight bulb lamp plus magnifier thingy as a wedding present. I must find the time and space to do some painting. Time and space. Sigh.
And even if I did my efforts wouldn’t be as nice as these. Double sigh.
I'm getting married!
Posted on in The World, WWW.Two days from now and the ceremony will be over, we’ll be welcoming our guests at the reception, having our photograph taken and getting ready to sit down to dinner.
Of course, you only need to see what my beloved has written to realise what sort of madness the next forty eight hours will be filled with.
This may be the last time I have Internet access for a while. Please try not to break the Internet whilst I’m away.
PS. We did briefly consider a honeymoon in New Orleans. Then we discovered that the weather was a bit risky at this time of year. The events there this week put our problems into perspective.