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cpkilekofp wrote: I'm still boggled a bit by the number of people who responded "this is a common idiom" without actually analyzing what was written.
Good, it's not just me then.
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Hi, Greetings from {London|Austin|NY|...}.
Something tells me that something has gone wrong with the blog comment auto-generator at this blog here[^].
Kinda backfires when the auto-generated comments aren't processed, and, well, the result is a thing to behold!
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Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Unholy mother of spam 
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private void toggleSwitch(bool? visible = false)
{
if (visible.Value) toggleState(visible);
}
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Well, it is completely redundant, and why is it Nullable?
I guess the developer had a case of hypocaffenia and encountered a '404: Brain Not Found' error.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Zac Greve wrote: hypocaffenia
Love it! 
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It's entirely possible that they would pass null into toggleSwitch. Of course, it should be HasValue rather than Value.
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It's not redundant at all. But it probably doesn't function the way the author intended. What the author probably had in mind was:
private void toggleSwitch(bool? visible = false)
{
toggleState(visible);
}
...which wraps a non-nullable toggle function with a nullable one.
But as it is written, the functionality that this method offers is actually:
1. If user passes toggleSwitch(True), then toggleState is toggled. BUT,
2. If user passes toggleSwitch(False) or toggleSwitch(), then NOTHING happens (because of the test).
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Congrats. You have successfully installed bugs! 
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Granted you don't pass a null value, the component / control will always remain in
.Visible = false But if false is passed, there's nothing there that will turn the control /component back on again.
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It throws an exception when visible == null.
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I'm rebuilding an old web app from scratch and I found this. There's a page that has a bulleted list on it.
Here's an example of how this was acheived:
<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 690px; height: 297px">
<tr>
<td align="center" style="width: 20px; height: 28px; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">
•
</td>
<td style="width: 715px; height: 28px; vertical-align: top;">Text in here for list</td>
</table>
Why use UL when you can use a table, and actually put the bullet in manually as a whole separate column!
The second TD being wider than the whole table is also a nice touch.
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Maybe it was generated from a DB table and they already had a stock routine to convert a result set into a table?
call dump_table("SELECT '*', column1 from table1 where listName = 'first';");
There could also be javascript code that captures clicks on table cells?
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There's nothing like that. It's a static FAQ page.
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screen readers? 
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I like how there is no </tr> tag.
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 That's my fault when typing the example in here I missed it. In reality they did use a </tr> It might be the only thing that was done right in that code.
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I guessed as much. I often miss out on things when I type, which is why I like autocompletion.
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This actually makes a lot of sense. The <ul><li> elements are completely unreliable when it comes to CSS styling across different platforms, also <ul><li> (nearly) always indents within the enclosing element producing alignment issues, again inconsistent across different platforms. At the very least you have to set the indent to a negative value and that does not work consistently. Bottom line, its a formatting nightmare.
Having done a lot of html email programming in the past I have to say the use of table cells and inline styling is by far the most portable and reliable code.
Anyway, its a redundancy, you're not saving anything using <ul><li> to create a list once you've styled it up, unless you're going for the doc-prof look.
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I was just thinkin the same thing. Although I'm a novice, I don't like the pre-formatted version of
<li><ul> and tables offer a convenient way to format things the way I want.
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This is a static page that's 5 years old, on a website (no other platform). The table is being used to display a list, no javascript hooks, no fancy formatting. This could have been done with a UL so much cleaner, and would have remained semantically correct.
Also, I didn't display this code but this page uses the table rows to acheive paragraph breaks.
<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">
<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 690px; height: 297px">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; width: 753px; font-family: Arial; height: 35px;">
User Agreement
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; width: 740px; font-family: Arial; height: 50px">
To use this site, please read the following statements and indicate you agree...
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="width: 753px; height: 73px">
I understand that this is a sample paragraph of text and I agree
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
Notice how they're all colspan="2"? That's so later when we get to the "list" the first column can be used for the bullet. Which isn't done with an image, or even • but an actual text •
There might be legitimate uses for tables, but this isn't one.
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throw new TableOverloadException();
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private long _remainder = long.parse("0");
I wish I knew who wrote this. I would have recommended TryParse to him. 
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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