wysiwyg-gobbledygoop

[grindmonkeh]

I have my first parent/teacher conference ever today.  Who is old?  That's right..I is old.

On another random note, I hate when web-editing programs junk out my code.  I use notepad all the time, and my boss found a program called Crimson Editor which is basically notepad with integrated ftp access to your stuff.  He gave it to me knowing that I would be thrilled with it.  The initial problem I found with it is that you can't create new files...you can only edit what exists on your ftp host.  ...Which makes notepad and my current ftp clients still essential.  Slight oversight on the programmers' part, eh.  So...I opened a couple of the pages that I had edited with Crimson Editor with Notepad to make some changes and saw that Crimson Editor had removed all the formatting from my html coding and inserted these little boxes instead of ending each line.  I've never seen anything so stupid...one page of html coding is one big run-on sentence with no breaks or end-lines, and finding what I'm trying to edit was foggling libiquitous.  I just spent two hours formatting the code structure of the pages I edited with it.

The only thing worse is when someone sends me an html document created with MSWord and asks me to integrate it into an online manual or utility page.  Complete Trash.  The file is rampant with "&nbsp" x10,000.  "&nbsp" represents a non-breaking space, which is essentially useless.   But the meat of the code is buried in it.

To make a long and uninteresting enough story short...the ultimate point here...just say no to junk code generators.  Yes...nerdias mucho. 

&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,
&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,
&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,My wife's taste in bed linens makes god kill
 innocent children.,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp,&nbsp
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Comments

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

I don't understand your nerd speak but I am going to see Dax Riggs next month!

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

Envy. We had planned on seeing Deadboy and the Elephantment last year in Champoo-Banana, but I had family that needed a place to stay that night so we cancelled. Chicago looks like the closest venue, so I'll likely not catch this tour. Absorb all the Daxness you can and swing it this way.

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

My wife's taste in bed linens makes god kill innocent children.

I see what you did there!

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

If only it weren't true. If only.

[defenestrat0r.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I hear you. Loud and clear. The worst is when you write a nice clean standards compliant piece of code, then someone goes and edits it in some piece of shit WYSIWYG editor, and suddenly it's turned into a craptastic puddle of font tags and nbsps and and and.... Gah, the way those things add font tags around everthing--and between everything--drives me batty!

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

I hate that gobbledy-gook too!

[merenda.livejournal.com]

+1 on this thread! :)

-Frank

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

the plot thickens...

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

I loathe font tags, and p class tags, and completely inane mark-ups. Loathe.