the horror, the horror
Apr. 27th, 2009 12:39 pm"Can you fix this webpage?" my boss said, handing me a set of files. "John made it in Dreamweaver and we want you to pretty up this big table. I think it was pasted in from Word."
"Sure," I say.
AAGH THE WHOLE PAGE IS ONE GIANT TABLE I AM BACK IN 1995! THERE IS A TABLE ROW WHOSE ENTIRE CONTENT IS A COUPLE OF TABLE HEADER CELLS WITH '.......' IN THEM, IN THE SAME COLOR AS THE BACKGROUND! AND IT'S CHOCK FULL OF HUGE CHUNKS OF REPEATED INLINE CSS!
I think I'm gonna need a hazmat suit to muck this one out.
Table-based layouts. *shiver* Clean CSS-centric layouts confused me at first, but looking at this spew... yeah, they are cleaner, simpler, and easier to understand. Sheeeeiiiiit.
edit: Holy fucking shit this us going to take a while. Just finding the start of the table I'm actually trying to modify is making my brain hurt. AGGH TABLES SUCK AND THE WEB DEVELOPERS WHINING THAT CSS POSITIONING IS A LITTLE HACKY SOMETIMES ARE FUCKING INSANE, THIS IS HELL TO MAKE SENSE OF.
edit: Oh, geeze. PARAGRAPHS AND TABLE CELLS WHOSE ENTIRE CONTENT IS . Yeah. Hazmat suit territory.
"Sure," I say.
AAGH THE WHOLE PAGE IS ONE GIANT TABLE I AM BACK IN 1995! THERE IS A TABLE ROW WHOSE ENTIRE CONTENT IS A COUPLE OF TABLE HEADER CELLS WITH '.......' IN THEM, IN THE SAME COLOR AS THE BACKGROUND! AND IT'S CHOCK FULL OF HUGE CHUNKS OF REPEATED INLINE CSS!
I think I'm gonna need a hazmat suit to muck this one out.
Table-based layouts. *shiver* Clean CSS-centric layouts confused me at first, but looking at this spew... yeah, they are cleaner, simpler, and easier to understand. Sheeeeiiiiit.
edit: Holy fucking shit this us going to take a while. Just finding the start of the table I'm actually trying to modify is making my brain hurt. AGGH TABLES SUCK AND THE WEB DEVELOPERS WHINING THAT CSS POSITIONING IS A LITTLE HACKY SOMETIMES ARE FUCKING INSANE, THIS IS HELL TO MAKE SENSE OF.
edit: Oh, geeze. PARAGRAPHS AND TABLE CELLS WHOSE ENTIRE CONTENT IS . Yeah. Hazmat suit territory.