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Mercator Puzzle 13 years ago

Another advantage of Mercator is that if you display the map from latitudes of about -85 degrees to +85 degrees you end up with a perfect square, which makes chopping the map into tiles nice and easy.

Dear ICO, Sue Us 14 years ago

The problem with just turning cookies off (in the UK anyway) is that with the new cookie law every second site now has an annoying message telling you about their cookie policy and you are now going to see it on every page.

Some are even modal which could render the site useless.

Not completely useless...

Its pretty handy for disabling javascript, changing forms from POST to GET, viewing form fields and trying different browser window sizes.

Otherwise though it does have a lot of pointless options.

The main reason that SGML allowed closing tags to be optional was that it was 80s technology and storage was expensive.

To omit tags you needed a DTD that allowed the parser to infer where the close tags should go.

Enforcing the use of close tags in XML meant that building a parser was much simpler and that you no longer had to supply a DTD which I think were probably very instrumental in XML's success.