Γνωθι Σεαυτόν
Posted in Personal on March 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Archive for March, 2007
In the middle of all that trouble again
Posted in Prolog on March 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In the latest days, I’ve been diving into the perils of parsing Prolog programs, again. In particular, I’ve been re-reading parts of Kjell Post’s PhD dissertation, entitled “Analysis and Transformation of Logic Programs”. That document contains a most interesting argument explaining the difficulties of Prolog parsing: it starts from considering how an operator is allowed [...]
Dynamic modification of CSS rules
Posted in Tools on March 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I have been recently involved in a discussion about modifying styles for HTML elements: usually it happens by changing the class attribute of an element from one style rule to another, which are typically similar, differing only for one declaration or two — but, I was asked, would it be possible to directly modify CSS [...]
Refreshing an image’s alternative text in Firefox, not.
Posted in Tools on March 6, 2007 | 6 Comments »
During last Friday’s lunchtime, I was fiddling with some basic JavaScript for a couple of proposed exercises (with due credit to David Reed for his nifty JavaScript assignments) in the context of the LTI-LA course, and in particular I was trying to dynamically set image attributes. Let’s suppose that, somewhere in a XHTML page, you [...]
