Maybe I'm being dumb here, but what's the 'one space after a period' rule about? I put two in out of habit and have never thought it a problem.
It doesn't seem to make sense as far as mucking up layouts go either. The extra space is dropped in HTML for a start and if it wasn't, any site that can't handle a couple of extra spaces isn't going to fare much better with any other text entered.
Man, I remember wondering if Javascript would ever be widespread or enabled enough for me to even make use of it. Not to mention how useless it was until the DOM got "sorted".
Everything since then has been a kind of slow, gradual surprise.
I made the same experience, especially when I discovered jQuery and other cross-browser libraries.
Before, most scripts went along the document.write(document.lastModified);-line. And if I remember correctly, not even that worked in all browsers correctly. Made me give up rather quick.
I'm PHP all the way usually and I get a LOT of flak for that, but it works out fine for me and, given the exodus to Ruby/Python over the past few years, I'm picking up a load of work that people are finally realising they can't hand off to that schoolkid for $50. It would take a lot more than comparable or merely better tools for me to make the jump.
If you want a bad analogy (and I KNOW you do!), I want a VHS->DVD jump rather than DVD->Blu ray else it's just not worth my while.
Oh man, I wish the developers of the API I'm working with right now read this (or just had any common sense at all). XML feed is a load of tab seperated data held in one tag. Two, three or four API calls are needed to get all the data I require (using unique codes from previous calls so there's no other way) and when it sees something unexpected, as it wont to do since I'm passing a tab-seperated mass of meaningless codes, it just dumps back the XML you sent it. No error message, no stack trace - just exactly what you sent over before. Kind of like a teacher handing you back some work with the "want to try again?" speech.
He could've done it in phpjs and killed two birds with one stone.
My bid was rejected and my account suspended for completing the work before my bid was accepted. I just hope those Clay guys see it so i can earn my $300.
It doesn't seem to make sense as far as mucking up layouts go either. The extra space is dropped in HTML for a start and if it wasn't, any site that can't handle a couple of extra spaces isn't going to fare much better with any other text entered.