Directors of Instacode Technologies Private Limited are Duraisamy Dhakchianandan, Chandrababu Yelamuri and Hanumantha Rao Bandi. It is inolved in Other computer related activities Instacode Technologies Private Limited's Annual General Meeting (AGM) was last held on N/A and as per records from Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), its balance sheet was last filed on N/A. It is classified as Non-govt company and is registered at Registrar of Companies, Hyderabad. If anyone else has been experimenting with presenting illustrated code listings on the web, or has found a solution to mobile browsers doing strange things with listing formatting after device orientation changes, I’d be very interested to know about it.Instacode Technologies Private Limited is a Private incorporated on 16 April 2020. The longdesc attribute for an img element might have been a better way to do this, but it has been deprecated so browser support is in doubt. I’d also like to know whether assistive technologies like screen readers would then handle the text correctly.įor now, I have settled on using SVGs for listings but also including a link to a plain text source file and somewhat detailed alt text describing the annotations. I’d like to investigate whether it’s possible to have fully-selectable listing text that copies and pastes correctly using a hand-crafted SVG, but this approach might prove to be prohibitively time-consuming even if it’s possible.

You can even have the text partially selectable, though anything produced in a graphics package is unlikely to faithfully reproduce white space used for indentation and the like. This guarantees everything is aligned correctly, and you can also guarantee the whole thing fits and scales sensibly on small screens and in different orientations using the usual CSS for images. So then I moved to using an SVG for everything, code and annotations alike. My original thought was to have an SVG overlaid on plain text code, but you can’t control the underlying text well enough to align them reliably, not least because of the first issue above. Once you go beyond simple things like line numbers or basic highlighting, you start to need an image for this. The other problem was that in some cases I don’t just want to show plain code, I want to show some sort of annotation overlaid on top of it that illustrates the idea I’m discussing in the article. If you rotate the phone to landscape instead, the scaling and text resizing behaviour in mobile browsers can be surprising and not at all helpful. Requiring constant horizontal scrolling is not pleasant or efficient for the reader. On a phone screen held in portrait orientation, even relatively short lines of code may be too wide to fit. One was that small devices are awful at handling them. 'this appears in many texts')įor some new coding articles I’ve been working on, I’m currently experimenting with a hybrid presentation, because I encountered two serious problems with a plain text representation. Text: You need to add more text (not texts - 'texts' means a number of text items, e.g. Exercise: You lack exercise (not exercises - 'exercises' means a collection of individual exercise items, not an increased quantity of exercise) Practice: You need more practice (not practices) Advice: Let me give you some advice (not some advices) Other words often mistakenly used in the plural when they shouldn't: Obviously you can't change the website now just to correct a silly grammar mistake, since that would cost money, but. Note that sugar, fruit, and fish also have this distinction that the word has a plural form, but the plural is only used to denote 'different varieties of', as opposed to a large number of sugar molecules, a large number of otherwise identical fruit items in a basket, or a large number of individual fish of the same type.

In this sense, 'code' is similar to sugar, fruit, fish, etc. It is wrong to say 'I sent a message using Morse Codes'. However, when used to denote things like source code, or morse code, it is an uncountable singular noun.

symbolic representations that map to practical functionality) that can be thought of as countable items in a bag. In this capacity, it refers to codes as a collection of 'individual code items' (i.e. This is in contrast to other uses where it does have a plural, like in 'Nuclear Codes', or 'Codes of conduct'. The word 'code' when applied to computer source code has no plural. This is a minor pet peeve of mine so apologies if I come across as rude, but the word 'codes' is a linguistic error (particularly prominent in indian coders for some reason, but also common elsewhere).

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