After the continuation of a permathread on the b-greek mailing list about the pros and cons of interlinears, I built some quick demonstrations of how CSS and Javascript could be used for dynamic interlinear glosses that would not be possible on the printed page.
They might be interesting as little Javascript tutorials too.
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Nathan Vander Wilt has been helping me with my Javascript for Quisition in IE.
From him I've learnt a couple of key things recently:
Thanks Nathan! I've now (hopefully) fixed the Quisition Short-Term Test Demo for IE users.
I still have some suggestions from Tim Wegener to implement.
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Yesterday I saw James Marcus using 'more' on the command line and I asked him why he didn't use 'less'. He responded by asking me why people use 'less' and not 'more'.
I use 'less' out of habit because when I started using Unix 13 years ago it wasn't the same as 'more'—it was more.
But I guess somewhere along the line, the old 'more' disappeared and the new 'more' became the same as 'less'. So if you want 'less' now you can just use 'more'.
I figured it's probably a symbolic link, just like 'sh' is often a symlink to 'bash'.
I just checked on Mac OS X and, sure enough, 'less' is 'more'; but it's actually a hard link, not a symbolic link.
In contrast, 'sh' and 'bash' on Mac OS X are distinct files but with the same content.
Go figure.
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