- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:01:52 +0000
- To: brkemper@comcast.net
- CC: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Brad, you may [receive] "HTML from third party vendors (which has already been mashed together from the work of "Bob" and several others)" and this "HTML itself [may often be] the product of a huge code base written in Java or something-dot-NET by people who are generally clueless about what constitutes good HTML" but do you really have to send your e-mails in equally execrable "HTML-ese" ? Philip TAYLOR -------- <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <br><div><div>On Jan 24, 2008, at 4:10 AM, David Dorward wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><p style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">BK> As = someone who typically hand-codes pages, I find such pages</font></p> <p = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">BK> reprehensible and = extremely difficult to edit.</font></p> </blockquote><p style=3D"margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: = 14.0px"><br></p> <blockquote type=3D"cite"><p style=3D"margin: 0.0px = 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Excuse me, for what are you editing these pages = ?</font></p> </blockquote><p style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; = font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style=3D"margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">The usual case is: "Bob worked for = Corporation. Bob wrote pages with presentational gubbins littered = through the HTML. Bob left Corporation. I joined Corporation. I have to = work on updating the site created by Bob."</font></p> = </blockquote></div><br><div>Yes. And in my case, I often have to = incorporate HTML from third party vendors (which has already been mashed = together from the work of "Bob" and several others).=A0</div><div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Sometimes I get to edit = some of the HTML directly, or request small changes, but oftentimes my = role is to write the style sheets for the HTML of others. The HTML = itself is often the product of a huge code base written in Java or = something-dot-NET by people who are generally clueless about what = constitutes good HTML (and unfortunately for me, "good HTML" =A0is not a = criteria for selecting vendors). There are sometimes sections within = that HTML that were inserted from some other library or something, and = pages that were clearly written at a different author at a different = time (and use different conventions for class names and = such).=A0</div><div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br></div><div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>=
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