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[electricland]

We hates* the "span" tag, precious. Oh yes, we do.

Why am I spending my afternoons up to my elbows in crappy eWebEdit-generated HTML code, again?

*Except on the very rare occasions when we needs it, that is.

Comments

[pretentiousgit.livejournal.com]

Because MS refuses to have IE comply to internet standards, and not everyone is bright enough to realize that Firefox isn't just a conspiracy, but is actually an improvement?

[electricland.livejournal.com]

this isn't fair! you and metawidget actually know what you're talking about!

but it's certainly a possibility.

[pretentiousgit.livejournal.com]

Heh. I only know even remotely what I'm saying 'cause I spent last summer in slow agony, learning new web-programming standards by hand and then trying to make cascading style sheets (basically the visible "design" of the page) work properly. And they wouldn't. Because, essentially, Microsoft wrote Internet Explorer to accurately process only redundant-shit Word/Frontpage HTML, and nothing else.

IE actually doesn't process web standards that have been available since the late 1990s. Using it is like using a black-and-white aerial-based television to try to see HDTV shows, and forcing all HDTV developers to produce their shows on super-8 film at the same time as their magical Digital Whatever versions so that people can see them.

And then people complain the picture isn't clear.
Sometimes people protest that the super-8 is, in fact, "better" than the HDTV.

Like my housemate.
hotbutton topic grumble-mutter

[electricland.livejournal.com]

there, there. *pet*

Your explanation makes more sense now, although I'm still going to blame some of it on eWebEdit, because what else is it doing for me?