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by acabal 1mo ago
But can't they just use an xpath expression to test the computed text content of a node, like `/path/to/ad/div[contains(., 'sponsored')]`? In that expression, there could be any number of nested elements i
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by acabal 2mo ago
I see this is part of the Triptych project, an attempt to, among other things, bring more verbs into HTML forms. As I've said before one of my long-time dreams is to have HTML forms support methods other than GET and POST. Clicking on
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by acabal 2mo ago
Butler's Odyssey and Iliad are prose translations, which we felt didn't fit the commonly understood image of those works as works of verse.
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by acabal 2mo ago
SE Editor-in-Chief here. We selected the William Cullen Bryant translation because we felt that, of the public domain translations , it was the one most accessible to modern readers. We also host his translation of the Iliad . Pope's
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by acabal 2mo ago
At Standard Ebooks we use the three-em-dash to indicate a fully obscured word, for example this line from Tristram Shandy : > He lies buried in the corner of his churchyard, in the parish of ⸻, under a plain marble slab If we were to us
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by acabal 3mo ago
Because if HTTP is the language of the web, then HTML forms are how humans speak that language to computers. Right now we humans can only speak GET and POST. In other words, right now if a human wants to DELETE a widget, the human has click
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by acabal 3mo ago
Supporting more than GET/POST in HTML forms has been my dream for decades. There's a WHATWG proposal to do just that if you want to add your voice: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11347
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by acabal 3mo ago
Home folder litter is one of my top pet peeves in computing. In fact it's the only reason why I refuse to use snaps on Ubuntu. I don't even care about whatever technical stuff everyone argues about - but snaps create a permanent `
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by acabal 3mo ago
The gem in this post is Pure, which I haven't heard of until now. I also have my prompt show the git status, and for large repos `git status` can take 10+ seconds to load and cache. I had no idea that you could do that asynchronously
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by acabal 4mo ago
SE editor in chief here. What you describe is incorrect. The only thing we do is very light sound-alike spelling modernization, like "to-night" -> "tonight". We do not do things like change from en-GB to en-US, re
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by acabal 4mo ago
This article is rediscovering the same phenomenon that happened when the steam-powered machinery was invented, leading to the Luddite movement. Machinery at the dawn of the industrial revolution was supposed to be a time-saving miracle that
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Support Put, Patch, and Delete in HTML Forms(alexanderpetros.com)
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by acabal 5mo ago
I've always told people, Kindles are ereaders seeming designed by people who hate books. The renderer is atrocious and is holding back the entire industry, much like IE6's crappy renderer and monopoly on users held the entire web
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by acabal 6mo ago
The reading ease algorithm we use is the Flesh-Kincaid algorithm, which works pretty well for regular prose books but clearly fails very badly on avant-garde prose like Ulysses or As I Lay Dying .
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by acabal 8mo ago
XML lost because 1) the existence of attributes means a document cannot be automatically mapped to a basic language data structure like an array of strings, and 2) namespaces are an unmitigated hell to work with. Even just declaring a defau
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by acabal 8mo ago
Sure, but to maintain a CSS framework? Seems like they way overhired.
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by acabal 8mo ago
Taking their sponsors page at face value and doing the math, they're bringing in close to $100k/month with corporate sponsorships alone... how much money could maintaining a framework possibly cost?
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by acabal 9mo ago
No, none have reached out yet. I've had some brief, high-level discussion along those lines with some people in the library industry, and the conclusion I drew is that public libraries in the US are highly fragmented in terms of techno
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by acabal 9mo ago
I know you griped about this in a different thread, but we won't be doing that, sorry. You can uniquely identify an ebook and its version by using dc:identifier in combination with dcterms:modified in the metadata file. If you desperat
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by acabal 9mo ago
As Robin mentioned the typical style is "fine art oil painting", with some wiggle room allowed for exceptionally difficult cases (like Asian-themed books, as there just wasn't much fine art on that subject pre-1930). We also
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by acabal 9mo ago
We have a list of wanted ebooks here: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/wanted-ebooks First-time contributors should select something from the appropriate section, because that gives you the greatest chance of succ
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by acabal 9mo ago
The ebooks we produce are entirely in the US public domain, including metadata and any other files. Unfortunately there are basically no good fonts released under the CC0 license. (Most open fonts are released under the OFL license, which i
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by acabal 9mo ago
SE Editor-in-Chief here! As always, happy to answer any questions.
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by acabal 10mo ago
For a literature-focused list of items entering the US public domain on 2026, Standard Ebooks has 20 ebooks prepared for release on January 1: https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
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by acabal 10mo ago
Headings can't help Slavoj, his writing is characterized by a few grains of interesting ideas totally overwhelmed within SAT-prep word salad.
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by acabal 11mo ago
We do the same with our feeds at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/feeds/rss/new-releases The page is XML but styled with XSLT.
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by acabal 11mo ago
I'm shocked and saddened to hear this. Greg was a deep source of knowledge and support as I started and shepherded Standard Ebooks. He was generous with his time and experience, and unbelievably patient with me, some guy he had never h
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by acabal 1y ago
Firefox does support XSLT. At Standard Ebooks, our ebook OPDS/RSS feeds are styled with XSLT when viewed with a browser. See for example https://standardebooks.org/feeds/opds/new-releases (use view source to
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by acabal 1y ago
No, there are too many things to track, but all of it is in the git history. Editorial changes have a commit message prefaced with [Editorial].
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by acabal 1y ago
> "Don't like it? Here is a full refund and you are free to read some other version." That is not at all what I said. > You can't claim to care about preserving the works while changing them, and that is changing t

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