Cate Sayers scores win against former husband Luke to keep defamation case in public eye
Justice Andrew Watson ruled on Wednesday that moving the case out of the Supreme Court would potentially prevent public vindication for Cate Sayers if she were to win. ⌘ Read more

Man who sent card to Norwegian princess in custody after clashing with media
David James Cooke, 63, was on Wednesday banned from contacting Ingrid Alexandra or entering the University of Sydney – where she lives and studies – for two years. ⌘ Read more

Delivery driver takes wrong turn, lands in Hyde Park fountain
The 21-year-old driver was discovered by police eating the McDonald’s meal he originally intended to deliver. ⌘ Read more

Australia news LIVE: US-Iran peace talks at a stalemate as hostilities flare in Middle East; Solomon Islands PM arrives at Parliament House
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Australia news LIVE: US-Iran peace talks at a stalemate as hostilities flare in Middle East; Solomon Islands PM arrives at Parliament House
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Rate rise of up to 52 per cent coming for thousands of Sydneysiders
From July, ratepayers will be paying hundreds of dollars more after the state’s pricing regulator approved the increases for five local councils. ⌘ Read more

There’s a 1 in 6 chance we’ll be extinct in 100 years. So what can we do about it?
Smarter people than me reckon there’s a decent chance the human race could soon be wiped out. Our biggest threat? Ourselves. ⌘ Read more

Three rushed to hospital after four-way crash on Gympie Road
The crash has caused significant traffic on the major arterial road headed towards the city. ⌘ Read more

Delivery driver takes wrong turn, lands in Hyde Park fountain
The 21-year-old driver was discovered by police eating the McDonald’s meal he originally intended to deliver. ⌘ Read more

WA news LIVE: West Coast Eagles move to lock in Ginbey until 2030
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Australia news LIVE: Senior ministers back AUKUS amid renewed scrutiny; Unions welcome minimum wage increase as business groups warn of high costs
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Major green bridge closed for police operation
The bridge was closed just before 6.20am, and emergency services remain in the area. ⌘ Read more

Ellis lands lucky first over blow
Pakistan opener Maaz Sadaqat was out in the first over after he chopped on off the bowling of Aussie fast bowler Nathan Ellis. ⌘ Read more

Car crashes into Hyde Park fountain in Sydney
A rental car has crashed into the water of a Hyde Park fountain in central Sydney. ⌘ Read more

Australia news LIVE: AI data centre boom could drive up electricity prices, climate advocates warn; Unions, government back minimum wage increase as business groups warn of high costs
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Woman hit by car fighting for life
A woman has life-threatening injuries after being struck by a car in Melbourne overnight. ⌘ Read more

South Australia facing major clean-up after wild weather
A huge storm has caused flooding and property damage in South Australia. ⌘ Read more

Notorious one-punch killer facing new drug charge
An infamous one-punch killer who has spent more than a decade behind bars in NSW faces a new drug charge. ⌘ Read more

Years ago, I used Kate, no, not somebody’s wife, but the KDE Advanced Text Editor, to export source code files and fragments into HTML with syntax highlighting. I think that’s where I got the initial <b> idea from. There were also bucketloads of <span style='color:#644a9b;'> all over the place, even inside <b>. No CSS classes defined upfront, all colors inlined. The final rendering in the browser looked great, but the source code ugly as hell in my opinion. However, I’m thankful for hinting me at <b>. I think this kicked off everything. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s the “Lyse types the entire HTML by hand” generator. Yes, no kidding. I write articles so rarely, that I can do that once in a while. It’s fun to some degree, but also not.

After some time, I finally recorded some Vim macros to insert <b>…</b>, <var>…</var>, <span class=s>…</span> etc. around the tokens. This helped a little bit. But I was still questioning my mental state doing it like that. I also had to fix a bunch of the end tags by hand, because the word movement wasn’t enough or the end movement went too far. Quite the annoying process for sure.

But I think the HTML looks a wee bit nicer and is maybe even semantically a little bit better than having only <span>s everywhere. I find the <span class="whatever"> just soo awfully long. Of course, I never look at the code again, but knowing, that e.g. there is a <b> and it saves so many bytes in comparison, makes me happy. It is a more elegant solution in my opinion. Not by much, but better nonetheless. It’s a matter of simplicity. Admittedly, even I can’t avoid the <span>s alltogether. Oh well. On the other hand, I’m sure that this does not make any difference whatsoever. I bet, nobody and nothing, like a screenreader, analyzes the HTML for that, where this would be truly useful.

Oh! Maybe text browsers, though. It just occurred to me while composing this reply. :-) Haha, I lost my bet quickly. w3m picks up at least the <b> for keywords and builtin types, <u> for filenames and <i> for comments. Yey. No different styles for <var> and <mark>, unfortunately. elinks only renders the bold. It’s cool that I had the right intuition right from the beginning, despite being unable to pinpoint it. :-)

All the <span> hell with common syntax highlighters is a downer for me that keeps me from looking more into them. If I wrote more articles, I might rig something up with Pygments. At least that’s somehow positively connotated in my brain. Not sure if it actually deserves it, but I dealt with that in some loose form (can’t even remember) years and years ago. Apparently, it wasn’t too terrible.

To prepare the table of contents, I used grep and sed with some manual intervention in the end. The entire process can be improved. Absolutely.

You wrote your own site generator, didn’t you?

The critical ingredients that give Dockers fans reason to dream
Dockers devotees have developed the sort of thick skin that only diehard followers of a trophy-less team can truly understand. This year they may finally get that anchor tattoo. ⌘ Read more

Cheer up: there’s an 83 per cent chance we won’t be extinct in 100 years
Smarter people than me reckon there’s a decent chance the human race could soon be wiped out. Our biggest threat? Ourselves. ⌘ Read more

These mothers wanted justice for their abused children. It bankrupted them
Jacqui and Rachel’s daughters were allegedly sexually assaulted at a Sydney childcare centre. ⌘ Read more

The inspiration behind an otherworldly network of glowing mushrooms in Kings Park
More than 50,000 kilometres of cables, fibre optics and lighting components will power 18 installations across Kings Park as part of the immersive Lightscape experience. ⌘ Read more

The people who say no to being a parent, and have very happy lives
Australia’s fertility rate is at a record low, putting those who have made the personal choice to be childfree in the centre of a political battleground whether they like it or not. ⌘ Read more

Emergency doctors are ‘begging for beds’ and planning to quit
Patients are not receiving the best care because “we don’t have the space”, the emergency doctors’ college warns. ⌘ Read more

New electric buses forced into storage due to delays upgrading Sydney depots
The delays to upgrading more than a dozen depots complicates the state government’s rollout of more than 1200 electric buses within the next two years. ⌘ Read more

Wife-killer on hunger strike after deportation from Perth to ‘hellhole’ Nauru
Tony Kellisar was jailed for 22 years after he strangled his wife in 1997. He was then in limbo in immigration detention before being released in 2023, but his freedom was short-lived. ⌘ Read more

A promise to consider something after the election is not a promise. It’s time to get real on corruption
Jacinta Allan has finally acknowledged that IBAC needs more power. The time for decisive action is now. ⌘ Read more

Superquiz, Wednesday, June 3
Trivia buffs, test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz. ⌘ Read more

Calls for E-mobility device bans for under 16s
AMA Queensland president says Queensland’s new E-mobility laws don’t go far enough. ⌘ Read more

Prominent Queensland surgeon suspended from practising medicine
Reza Adib, the partner of former Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, has been suspended from practising in Australia as he faces rape charges. ⌘ Read more

Kmart takes on IKEA with new concept store
Kmart is taking on IKEA with a new furniture showroom concept called K Home. ⌘ Read more

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1980s portraits of Hutchence, Bono, Bob Hawke and others finally see light of day
Never-before-seen photos taken by a Redlands teacher during his wild youth as a rocker and radio host are now on display in Brisbane. ⌘ Read more

Fierce storm hits South Australia
Weather alerts have been issued for dangerous high tides and flood risks. ⌘ Read more

WA’s once-in-a-generation storm causes lasting damage
Lasting damage has been done by WA’s once-in-a-generation storm, turning stretches of Perth beaches into cliff edges. ⌘ Read more

Inside the home of the Claremont serial killer
For the first time, 9News can take you inside the home of the Claremont serial killer on the day he was arrested. ⌘ Read more

Previously unseen photo reveals moment of Claremont serial killer’s arrest
Vision of the moment Claremont serial killer Bradley Robert Edwards was arrested has come to light for the first time. ⌘ Read more

Allan no longer able to bat away questions
Readers react after the premier concedes that IBAC needs a broader remit to investigate corruption in state institutions. ⌘ Read more

Notorious one-punch killer hit with new drug charge
Kieran Loveridge spent more than a decade in jail for killing Thomas Kelly in a case that sparked Sydney’s controversial lockout laws. ⌘ Read more

Massive debugging project: Why Google plans to release 32 million mosquitoes
It’s a plan Australia might need to replicate with the arrival of a new and aggressive species. ⌘ Read more

Notorious wife killer Chris Dawson makes bid for interstate prison transfer
The 77-year-old will almost certainly die in prison. But the former rugby league player and school teacher wants a say in which one. ⌘ Read more

Vivid Sydney hopes drones will fly again next year. But they are hunting for a new operator
The search for an operations manager with “substantial” drone show experience was launched the day after dozens of drones descended into Darling Harbour. ⌘ Read more

When things go wrong inside Sydney’s most expensive schools
The HSC might not be a race, but among schools it is definitely a competition. ⌘ Read more

Labor, Coalition to avoid repaying investment funds under donations fix
The major parties would dodge paying back donations from their investment funds if they have already spent the cash, under the government’s plan to restore campaign finance laws. ⌘ Read more

Queensland’s e-mobility laws watered down after feedback
Queensland’s new e-mobility laws have been watered down following community feedback. ⌘ Read more

Inmate escapes from SA pre-release centre
9News can reveal an inmate managed to escape the Adelaide Pre-Release Centre, allegedly sneaking back hours later with bottles of alcohol. ⌘ Read more

Australia’s billionaires add stunning increases to fortunes
Australia’s billionaires have enjoyed another year of stunning increases to their fortunes. ⌘ Read more

Fit of road rage almost causes massive accident
A fit of road rage came close to causing a massive accident on the M7, after a man slammed on his brakes to confront another driver. ⌘ Read more

New owners reveal intentions for Wieambilla property
The new owners of the infamous Wieambilla property where two police officers and a neighbour were killed by religious extremists have revealed their intentions for the property. ⌘ Read more

Ben Roberts-Smith to wait longer for full evidence against him
Accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith will have to wait several months to learn the full extent of the case against him ⌘ Read more

Passengers left stranded after power fault on Melbourne train
Passengers on a Melbourne train were left scrambling after the carriage was rocked by multiple explosions, caused by an overhead power fault. ⌘ Read more

Biggest-ever shipment of electric cars arrives in Melbourne
The biggest-ever shipment of electric cars in Australia has arrived in Melbourne, with 5000 Chinese-made EVs ready to hit the road. ⌘ Read more

Man charged over alleged stabbings across Melbourne
A man has been charged after allegedly stabbing two people in different Melbourne suburbs. ⌘ Read more

Firefighter union says tragic Melbourne house fire could have been avoided
Victorian firefighters say the Melbourne house fire which killed a three-year-old boy could have been avoided if enough resources were available. ⌘ Read more

Massive rate hikes approved across multiple Sydney councils
Rate hikes of up to 50 per cent have been approved in nine councils across NSW. ⌘ Read more

Antony Catalano allowed to travel to see wife in Byron Bay on bail
Disgraced media mogul Antony Catalano has been given the green light to travel interstate to see his wife in Byron Bay. ⌘ Read more

Aussie rockstar and former military admiral spearhead AUKUS inquiry
An Australian rockstar and a former head of the Australian military are joining forces to probe the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine deal. ⌘ Read more

Millions to get pay rise
Millions of Aussies will get a pay rise amounting to nearly $3000 a year after the Fair Work Commission raised the minimum wage. ⌘ Read more

Charlie Pickering joins criticism of ABC’s Grace Tame podcast deal
ABC radio broadcaster Pickering has described as “problematic” the ABC’s decision to appoint Grace Tame as a podcast host. ⌘ Read more

Police hunt gunman who shot at Melbourne home
Police are hunting for an unknown gunman who fired shots at a family home in Melbourne’s north. ⌘ Read more

Australia news as it happened: Fair Work Commission lifts minimum wages by 4.75 per cent; Peter Garrett to lead AUKUS inquiry; Israel’s planned assault on Beirut to be halted, Trump says
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Australia news LIVE: Fair Work Commission lifts minimum wages by 4.75 per cent; Peter Garrett to lead AUKUS inquiry; Israel’s planned assault on Beirut to be halted, Trump says
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‘Idiot’, ‘monster’, ‘witch’: Serial pest Andrew Thaler’s latest day in court did not go well
To most people, a three-hour grilling before the NSW Industrial Relations Commission would be something to fear. Not so for a sweary, problematic councillor. ⌘ Read more

Australia’s population hits 28 million
Australia’s population has just passed 28 million, according to estimates by the ABS. ⌘ Read more

Palaszczuk’s surgeon partner suspended from practising
Dr Reza Adib stands accused of detaining a woman against her will in his Gold Coast apartment and allegedly raping and sexually assaulting her. ⌘ Read more

Accused killer told police of ‘hidden secrets’ before girlfriend went missing
Mark Sheridan Waden told police his girlfriend, a US citizen and former beauty queen, disappeared after he threatened to report her to immigration officials. ⌘ Read more

Tossers caught out by AI cameras, as Brisbane’s worst illegal dumping hotspots named
More cameras are being rolled out to battle a surge in dumping, with affluent New Farm emerging as a surprise hotbed of complaints. ⌘ Read more

Passengers left stranded after power fault on Melbourne train
Passengers on a Melbourne train were left scrambling after the carriage was rocked by multiple explosions, caused by an overhead power fault. ⌘ Read more

James Boags Brewery in Tasmania set to close after 145 years
After 145 years, the James Boags Brewery in Launceston will shut its doors. ⌘ Read more

Millions to get pay rise
Millions of Aussies will get a pay rise amounting to nearly $3000 a year after the Fair Work Commission raised the minimum wage. ⌘ Read more

Firefighter union says tragic Melbourne house fire could have been avoided
Victorian firefighters say the Melbourne house fire which killed a three-year-old boy could have been avoided if enough resources were available. ⌘ Read more

Police hunt gunman who shot at Melbourne home
Police are hunting for an unknown gunman who fired shots at a family home in Melbourne’s north. ⌘ Read more

As Victorian teachers flock interstate, Kiwis are filling the education gap
As state-educated teachers undertake a mass exodus interstate, a flood of New Zealand educators is cushioning the blow. ⌘ Read more

I went looking for One Nation’s policies. Here’s what I didn’t find
The divisive party makes grand claims about what regulation or legislation needs to change. But there is no clear explanation of how any of that might be achieved. ⌘ Read more

NSW police officer accused of sexually assaulting, choking ex-wife
A Sydney court heard the officer allegedly told a child who called Triple Zero during one incident: “I will lose my job if you do that.” ⌘ Read more

Accused killer told police of ‘hidden secrets’ before girlfriend went missing
Mark Sheridan Waden told police his girlfriend, a US citizen and former beauty queen, disappeared after he threatened to report her to immigration officials. ⌘ Read more

Terror leader’s son bore burden of family name before cowardly bashing
The son of terrorist leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika has been released from jail after being sentenced to time served over a violent ambush on a stranger. ⌘ Read more

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Asbestos, construction costs blamed for $25 million Fremantle Hospital blowout
Construction on the expansion kicked off in January 2024, when the government said the redevelopment was set to cost $63 million. ⌘ Read more

ICAC to investigate allegations of corruption at University of Wollongong
The anti-corruption watchdog will look at recruitment, contracts and conflicts of interest at the besieged university. ⌘ Read more

Man allegedly caught with firebomb, knives outside John Ibrahim’s home
A man has allegedly been found lurking near the Sydney home of the former nightclub mogul with weapons and an “intent” to harm, court documents say. ⌘ Read more

ICAC to investigate allegations of corruption at University of Wollongong
The anti-corruption watchdog will look at recruitment, contracts and conflicts of interest at the besieged university. ⌘ Read more

One of nine Alan Jones accusers withdraws from indecent assault case
Prosecutors announced they would drop one case against the former radio broadcaster, who denies abusing young men over two decades. ⌘ Read more

Australia news LIVE: Fair Work Commission lifts minimum wages by 4.75 per cent; Peter Garrett to lead AUKUS inquiry; Israel’s planned assault on Beirut to be halted, Trump says
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ACTU welcomes minimum wage increase
Secretary Sally McManus told reporters that the 4.75 per cent minimum wage increase would ease pressure on workers. ⌘ Read more

Senator accused of trying to turn moment into social media post
Labor Minister Tim Ayres has accused Independent Senator David Pocock of trying to turn a moment in a Senate estimates hearing into a social media post. ⌘ Read more

Dog swims almost one kilometre to island off NSW coast
The dog played “hide and seek” with rescuers after it was spotted on a small island off the NSW South Coast. ⌘ Read more

Australia news LIVE: Fair Work Commission lifts minimum wages by 4.75 per cent; Peter Garrett to lead AUKUS inquiry; Israel’s planned assault on Beirut to be halted, Trump says
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If Ebola lands in Australia tomorrow, what happens next?
With global travel, a disease that begins far away can quickly become a test of systems here, and the first 24 hours would matter enormously. ⌘ Read more

Millions to get pay rise
Millions of Aussies will get a pay rise amounting to nearly $3000 a year after the Fair Work Commission raised the minimum wage. ⌘ Read more

‘FIFO playground for the rich’: Tensions soar over luxury resort’s helicopter plan
Tourism, road failures and the community have collided over a contentious transport plan by a luxury Emirates-owned retreat in the Blue Mountains. ⌘ Read more

Australia news LIVE: Fair Work Commission lifts minimum wages by 4.75 per cent; Peter Garrett to lead AUKUS inquiry; Israel’s planned assault on Beirut to be halted, Trump says
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Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
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Antony Catalano’s bail varied so he can travel to the wife he’s accused of bashing
Defence lawyer Tony Hargreaves asked that the media mogul now be permitted to go to Byron Bay to see his family after limitations were placed on his interstate travel at a bail hearing earlier this year. ⌘ Read more

Dog swims almost one kilometre to island off NSW coast
The dog played “hide and seek” with rescuers after it was spotted on a small island off the NSW South Coast. ⌘ Read more

Jacinda Ardern provides update on Aussie life
Former NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern is currently living in Sydney. ⌘ Read more

Australia news LIVE: AUKUS national inquiry to kick off today; Israel’s planned assault on Beirut to be halted, Trump says
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WA news LIVE: Qantas backs Flagmantle, adds more flights for AFL grand final weekend
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