Coders Edge
  
Mobile Web Fragments

Phases of System Engineering
  If you have your own thing going on,
own buildings, whatnot, you have to
consider that there are issues associated
with maintainance.  It costs a lot of money.
  Make sure you shovel off the roof or
hire a professional who will call in a bunch
of illegal guys with shovels who will deal with
the snow in short order.  Send those brave
and underdressed guys to shiver their nice
day away with a shovel.  Guy's going to learn
right away what kind of clothing the cold wind
requires that gets worn.
  Make a list of all the things you want to do
in your head while you are shoveling.  When you
get back to the keyboard you can start to think
about them somemore.  but they don't really live
there at the keyboard een tough that is where you
may concieve them, oh coder that you are.  You
have only so many hours in a day.  You need to 
shovel off your roof lest your roof collapse.  
get at it there, bud.  Because you gotta.
  Meanwhile here are there things that
I can think about while I am raking my roof:

Tiling
  similar to pallitizing
  arrays, positional arrays

Slide Show
  list of images
  list of image positions
  list of times for when images appear

Style Morphs

  There are some clear tradeoffs in
doing things in different ways.  There
is a level of integrity, where things
can stand on their own:  suscint, 
well-crafted, easy to grasp.  Not seemingly
made of vapor and gone the next day
after the presentation is over.
  There are issues with morphing style
that seem call out for an answer
when the CSS file gets changed so
severly by a DOM manipulator . . .
then why have the CSS file at
all and just have all of your
styles set by a style set creature
that lives on your web page?
Style sheets were designed as a way
to make the transmisssion of style
data more managable.  The style is
like the clothing of the data in
some sense (though I am sure that
this analogy will have very sad
consequences of humourous, be they minor,
literary natures).  So the data, when
naked, might be considered not so
polite.  In the sense that the data
is naked.  If there really were other
clothes for the data to wear, then why
not make the data be complete and suscinct
and the presentation of the data be 
locked with in our beautiful CSS file.
  So now here we are, all of our
beautiful clothes.  These are our
wordrobe for our data set. And we can 
tag any piece of the data with whatever
little tag we would like.  Set the style
to be whatever you want it to be.
the various methodologies of DOM 
manipulation with Client side scripts
provides the clear path to interactive 
and future oriented web-pages.
  But what about some types of data
that kind of want to be presented in
a specific way.  There are those types
of data where the presentation is
most important.  The orientation
of an icon on a map, for example,
is usually not just plunked anywhere
upon that map, but is placed
with precision at a location
where there is a cooresponding
feature about which the icon refers.
And there will usually be some kind
of key off to the side of the map (or
provided  for remootely, or that the
user just knows. . . so that the icon
has meaning upon the map.  Data like
that might be better presented with
information about style and positioning
being controlled with rigidity by the
data presentors.  Mushy style sheet
placements will disallow the use
of the data if the style is selected 
off.  Data like that is good in a bitmap.
Say a jpeg file.

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Watch for some new things on my pages. 
My creativity runs in cycles.  It comes when
it comes.  You just need to be patient.

  WP Feb 2, 2011