Comments on: Episode 3: “One of these things…”

By: ubernostrum

ubernostrum — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:44:13 +0000

I *told* you some of these were ambiguous ;)

By: Stormrider

Stormrider — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:33:41 +0000

Whoops!! Didn’t realise HTML was on in this :)
Again:

For question 5…

- not supported properly in all browsers (*COUGH* Internet Explorer *COUGH*)

— only one that is deprecated

- behavioral as well as presentational, the others are presentational only

So, give the above, I reckon is the odd one out, being the only one not to have a reason for being the odd one out :D:D:D

By: Stormrider

Stormrider — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:31:50 +0000
For question 5... - not supported properly in all browsers (*COUGH* Internet Explorer *COUGH*) - only one that is deprecated could be the odd one out because it is behavioral as well as presentational, the others are presentational only So, give the above, I reckon is the odd one out, being the only one not to have a reason for being the odd one out :D:D:D

By: xhtmlcoder

xhtmlcoder — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:31:00 +0000

Question 5: they are all available in HTML 4 and are inline elements (the question never mentioned XHTML)

Q: is not correctly rendered by MSIE as visual user agents must ensure that the content of the Q element is rendered with delimiting quotation marks.

U: a presentational element was deprecated in favour of CSS due to usability issues.

I: basically presentational in most senses and usually CSS can be used in place of.

A: is the odd one out. As it can’t be substituted and performs a hyperlink function plus it cannot be nested unlike the other three.

There you have it the Anchor.

By: HardCoded

HardCoded — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:13:03 +0000

1. B: APP is not XML (Atom is)
2. A: GET is the only one a browser can send without using a form.
3. B: Mindaugas got it: empty string
4. D: Python is interpreted
5. D: A is the only element that has a default behaviour (as opposed to default presentation).

By: Phil M

Phil M — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:59:43 +0000

If B were deprecated, then I think you would need to apply the same logic to C and I think you are supposed to use EM over I and STRONG over B.
I'd just like to mention that <b> and <i> are both valid xhtml1.1 strict. They serve a different purpose to <strong> and <em> being used for basic presentation rather than semantic purposes.

By: Mindaugas

Mindaugas — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:37:31 +0000

Q3: B is MD5 hash of empty string.

By: kasimir

kasimir — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:35:06 +0000

Q1: B, non w3c
Q2; C, POST is not idempotent

By: mmj

mmj — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:28:51 +0000

Q1: B
Atom is the only format not to have been submitted to the W3C. (not sure about this one)

Q2: D
HEAD is the only method that will never result in a message body being returned.

Q5: B
is the only tag not valid in HTML 4.01 strict.

For Q3 I’ll have to go with mrssmiley’s answer and for Q4 I’ll have to go with Rick O’s.

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:51:58 +0000

This is my favourite of the quiz questions so far, Jacob. So much fun!