{"id":80,"date":"2014-05-19T21:09:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T21:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasgardnerofsalem.wordpress.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2019-06-02T20:18:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T20:18:05","slug":"shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/2014\/05\/19\/shapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As said, this blog is <a href=\"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/\"><strong>technically oriented<\/strong><\/a>. But, in the nested world of reality, one person&#8217;s technical is another&#8217;s abstraction (let&#8217;s discuss). Those whose services will be in demand in the future (in order for us to have sustainability and a lot more) ought to be able to be able to bridge many levels of technical data. The topmost level of this paradigm? Don&#8217;t get me started as we have too many (as in way more than necessary) nestled up there, cloud nine, living off the work of others. The lowest level? Would be<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/truthengineering.blogspot.com\/\">truth engineer&#8217;d<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in focus? So, this post is technical in a computational sense (somewhat, we can go much deeper). We will get back to content management. Too, we&#8217;ll get back to<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/fed-aerated.blogspot.com\/2013\/10\/map-and-territory.html\">map-territory<\/a><\/strong> issues that seem to be everywhere inflicting even smart people (listen up, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/truthengineering.blogspot.com\/2013\/10\/best-and-brightest-of-what.html\">best-and-brightest<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>The next post will go into peers keeping each other honest (can that appeal to millennials?).<\/p>\n<p>In a <a title=\"Button work in progress\" href=\"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/2014\/05\/13\/button-work-in-progress\/\"><strong>prior post<\/strong><\/a>, I mentioned running across shapes being handled by <a href=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/blog\/post\/moving-forward-with-css-shapes\"><strong>CSS and HTML<\/strong><\/a>. When I first saw that, I just made note as I was looking at buttons (which can have all sorts of shapes; notice that we went back to the <a href=\"http:\/\/thomasgardnersociety.org\/\"><strong>old, Platonic, rectangle<\/strong><\/a>). Since then, I have looked at this advance via HTML\/CSS and wanted to point to a few places to revisit later when I get back to layout issues (table&#8217;ing is sufficient for now &#8212; I&#8217;ll have to find the page, but a modernly focused site had tables still in use &#8211; hurrah).<\/p>\n<p>For now, we will show a few examples.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadgetronicx.com\/2013\/09\/creating-attractive-shapes-using-css.html\">Attractive shapes via CSS<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; nice demonstration of &#8220;parameterization&#8221; and its use (a topic needing <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/7-oops-7.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/here-we-go-again.html\">some attention<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; they can be nice, but they can bite).<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sarasoueidan.com\/blog\/css-shapes\/\">Creating non-rectangular layouts<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; example of modern polygonization that would marvel Euclid.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gojs.net\/latest\/index.html\">Interactive diagrams on the web<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; and I remember Hypercard, Visio, &#8230; many CAD (CATIA, for instance) and CAE systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is nice to see the progress in the form and look of web&#8217;d stuff. Trust, value, and such (we will be getting back to those)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As said, this blog is technically oriented. But, in the nested world of reality, one person&#8217;s technical is another&#8217;s abstraction (let&#8217;s discuss). Those whose services will be in demand in the future (in order for us to have sustainability and a lot more) ought to be able to be able to bridge many levels of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}