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What the..? I was checking out my change when I noticed that I had a 2000 penny (as well as the 1967 centennial penny). I was showing it off to weirDo who noticed that it had round edges (not the cornered edges since the mid 1980s). I found that kind of odd, until I looked at a 1998 penny, and it also had round edges! What the hey? When did we go from the twelve-sided pennies back to round pennies?
Onto the topic of the lowly >. I don't mind having >'s floating around, but the more nefarious charatcer is the < as it is the symbol you need to desgnate tags. I like using > myself because if I'm going to be using <, I might as well be consistent no? Besides, the highlighting in vim tends to freak out when it sees a lone >.
Thursday, June 08, 2000 at 19:20:51 (UTC)
I could tell you a story about >, XML and SGML, but I'm sure nobody's interested...
What it boils down to, though, is that > is no longer really illegal in character data blocks in XML (and XHTML, by extension). It's just impolite for SGML compatibility reasons.
FlyingS
Thursday, June 08, 2000 at 20:34:49 (UTC)
Oh, yes, unescaped >'s are entirely illegal in boring old SGML-based HTML... which is why they're impolite in XML. But if you decide to switch over to XHTML, you can use >'s with near-impunity. Hurray!
It's sloth, really. But I don't have a problem with that.
FlyingS
Friday, June 09, 2000 at 04:53:04 (UTC)
In regards to your penny question, the answer is 1997. The twelve-sided penny was introduced 15 years earlier in 1992. Also on penny changes, the Queen's headgear changed (as she aged) in 1965 (forgoing the laurel wreath for a more dignified tiara) and 1990.
I know because I checked. Turns out I have a penny for each year back to 1962 in my piggy bank. I gotta roll those. I was a little disappointed to find that I don't have a George VI at the moment. Somehow, my oldest penny (vintage 1944) is American. gasp.
I'm sure you can rest easier knowing all that.
Oh, my homepage was always supposed to be where I went and rambled on about stuff occasionally. Back when I started I'd changed it about once a week. I'm thinking I'd like to get back into a routine like that.
I've tried writing journals over the years and always failed miserably. I have an extremely short attention span. It just never seems to work out.
FlyingS, God of Useless Trivia