Grumbles

Thoughts on Word produced code Comments Off

Here’s a perfect summation of why word produced code blows, stated way better than I could put it, from CodeBitch: Word’s Export to HTML function is pretty much a joke. Microsoft Word 97 and 98 can’t even generate HTML tags that nest properly, and they don’t recognize the standard Heading 1 and Heading 2 Word [...]

Word produced code blows Comments Off

Today’s annoying project: stripping out all the crap code that word inserts into it’s so-called “saved as html” pages. I have actually found a program that produces worse code than Fusion. Predictably, it’s from M$.

It's friday evening… why am I at work? Comments Off

Well, I thought friday was going fine. Work all day, cash paycheck, buy groceries, and relax at the bookstore for an hour. Cool, huh? Then I get home, and there’s a message from my boss on the machine. Turns out a quickie addition to a client’s main page did not meet with approval, and had [...]

Time to grump about Fusion Comments Off

It can’t handle CSS. Period. I mean, it shouldn’t be too hard to make a WYSIWYG program that can handle a simple SPAN tag, should it? Everyone else has been able to do it. But not, apparently, Fusion. People complain about having to hack dreamweaver so it’ll produce compliant code, but you have to hack [...]

Stuck working late Comments Off

It’s 6:00 and I’m still at work. Yeerg. Very much looking foward to the B5 tape waiting for me. Not looking foward to the pile of dishes also waiting for me.