Timmy’s posterous

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This guy just got on the bus with lawn furniture . . . and not just a small chair but the full lounge chair. Where in downtown is he going to use that?

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More and more I’m growing to hate WYSIWYG editors is something that they do very poorly. That is, the use of the   (non-breaking space) next to a space so as to add two spaces between sentences.

This, my friends, is wrong.

Let’s look at why. First, take the name: non-breaking space. It says two things about what this HTML entity means and should be used for.

It is a space. That is clear enough since it is (mis)used often to add margin, padding or word spacing on a webpage. (Which by-the-way can all be accomplished using CSS and the :first-letter selector.)

It is non-breaking. This part is less understood. You see, when you write text for HTML you can image that depending on many browser variables (i.e. font size, page width, letter spacing, etc.) a sentence could line break anywhere there is white space. But it is sometimes the case that there should not be a line break between two words such as in the case of the name “Mr. Christensen.” These are the appropriate circumstances in which the non-breaking space ought to be applied. Example:

Mr. Christensen

The worst offense of its misuse is when I see:

<p>&nbsp;</p>

This is WYSIWYG code I see in older versions of Dreamweaver and even in the text editor used by Posterous. And it pains me so much now that I know.

For more info check out this post on Yesterdayishere.

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I recently had to get fitted for a tuxedo because my brother is getting married in July (congratulations to him and I know he and his fiance will be happy). I’m in the wedding and according should be dressed the same as all the other groomsmen. So, as I’ve done in the past, I asked my brother where I will have to get fitted for my tux. He gave me the name of the tuxedo rental shop and the city where they are located (but not the address) and that’s where the information stopped.

Granted, I’m a big boy now and I should be able to figure out the rest but the list of things I know about this place was small and finding it wasn’t going to be as easy as typing the name into Google. That brought me to think of how this business could make it easier for me, the savvy web professional, to get fitted. They should take the fitting process online. It would be easier for me to find and I wouldn’t even have to leave the comfort of my home.

My roommate knows quite a bit about taking clothing measurements since he used to work in the men’s suit department at a major department store. He claims that the process is easy and could even be performed by one person on themselves. If that is the case, why not write up a PDF that has a cut-out measuring tape and a step-by-step guide how to take your own measurements and then provide an online web form to submit those measurements so we could forego the entire process of having a stranger wrap his arms around you and touch you in sometimes uncomfortable ways.

I’m just saying, you could do it and I don’t think it would too hard.

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