On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Nikolai Franke wrote: > I just tried to use the validator's explanatory service; unfortunately, > although I know some html, I wasn't able to, because I could not find out > what 'FOO' might refer to, which seems a key term on the entire page > (somehow it seems to be just a variable, a placeholder, but not quite). It > isn't explained anywhere. It's really a generic placeholder, common in computer jargon, and meant to be somehow humoristic. There's a detailed explanation at http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=foo -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/Received on Saturday, 24 January 2004 09:39:11 GMT
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