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Category: Programming

The Schlumberger configuration

Geophysics blogging means Equations!

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Following on from my previous post, ‘Geophysics blogging means new HTML entities!’, I discovered the maths was getting yet more complicated, with the need to represent equations like this:

Really complicated equation

Really complicated equation 😬

Ideally, I didn’t want to use images, for accessibility reasons, unless I could provide a meaningful alt tag, which takes me back to the original problem of representing the equation in text, but with less useful characters. Here’s a page with a lot of equations as an example: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/easc080162019-0sv1sem2/2020/02/06/7-2-1-electrical-resistivity/. I’ve made a lot of progress using HTML entities, but they can only get me so far.

Maxwell's Equations, which show how electricity and magnetism are related, on a T-shirt.

Geophysics blogging means new HTML entities!

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I’ve been working on moving a couple of Geophysics courses over to WordPress blogs recently, and the latest one includes a lot of mathematical equations.

The previous version of the course was displaying these as images without any titles or alt tags, so I thought I would improve on their accessibility by using HTML entities, several of which were new to me, and it has been an interesting journey!

A Slightly Unnerving Javascript Video

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I’ve enjoyed using FreeCodeCamp’s training resources before, so I was enthusiastic about giving this JavaScript tutorial a go. After about a minute, I was starting to wonder, “Is he really going to stand there talking about JavaScript for 3 hours, standing next to an RV in the snow?” But no, he gets in and leaves the little boy out there…


Learn JavaScript – Full Course for Beginners – freeCodeCamp.org

I’m going to have to watch this later…

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