Why oh why does everything always need to be awkward in IE? Just when you are happily developing in Chrome and/or Firefox and everything is working perfectly you find out that some little bit of javascript or CSS is not working for Internet Explorer. Today we encountered another one of those. This one has to [...]
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Encapsulating vs Hiding
A short while ago I posted this rant about a incompetent programmers and a good friend posted the following comment: You say OOP is about hiding mutable state. Isn’t it about encapsulating mutable state? Maybe it’s just a matter of wording – but “hidden”, in my dictionary, means that it’s totally out of reach. Encapsulated [...]