Remember the internet before CSS? Set the dial to 1996 and crank up the flux capacitor for the worst web design advice ever. Here’s a sample: “If you want people to read [your web pages], don’t [use standard HTML constructs]. They take away your typographic control. Specify your own font sizes when you want a size change.” To a nongeek, let me just say that reading this statement is tantamount to reading “When running with scissors, make sure they are always pointed up. Otherwise, if you fall, you might stab yourself in the thigh.”
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Written by on Monday, July 17, 2006 at 1:07 pm (EDT) Tagged as: geekiness internets links looking-back |
July 18, 10:08 pm
The goggles - they do nothing!
What a great article. I mean, this thing is chock full of wonderful advice. I particularly liked this pearl of wisdom: “And try not to number your list items. It is hardly ever necessary.” I mean, who would want to number stuff? Especially stuff like “20 easy steps to defusing a bomb.” Who needs numbers?
I particularly liked his use of the “IETF” (whatever that is) HTML 2.0 DTD. I mean, how ancient is that? And he contradicts himself from the very beginning. Case in point: “HTML is a markup language, not a layout language. It isn’t meant to present a picture to the viewer.” Then he says, “if the standard HTML constructs delivered true typographic results, I’d use them ...”
Umm, first he tells us that HTML is not a layout language. And then he complains that he can’t get typographic results with HTML.
Man, I don’t believe in nothin’ no more. I’m going to law school!
July 19, 8:37 am
So, this has nothing to do with your blog, but I gotta tell you anyway....cause its funny.
I had a crazyass dream last night. Erin (my wife, for those of you that don’t know) was pregnant and we were in Newton for the weekend because she was supposed to have the baby that weekend, but she wasn’t fat like pregnant chicks, she was normal, so it was weird. We went to the Burger King at home and walked in. I ordered a Bacon, Egg, and Cheese sandwich and the lady handed me my sandwich and said “With every sandwich, you get a free baby”. I was pissed because we couldn’t afford 2 babies, then in walks Kip and Stephanie. So to solve the argument, I gave the free Burger King baby to Kip (i remember thinking in my dream that the baby was ugly, so it was OK to give it away). So something happened now that I don’t really remember and then we were magically (its a dream, so I can do that) at the beach. Erin and I were hanging out on the beach and Kip and Stephanie walk up. Kip is carrying 2 babies and Stephanie is carrying 2 babies and Kip looks at me and says “I’ve been eating at Burger King a lot”. Then the dog licked my face and I woke up....
Anyone got any idea what this crap means? I interpret it as “stay away from Burger King”....
July 19, 12:47 pm
Your first mistake was letting a pregnant woman into the Burger King in Newton. It’s not very clean, even by Burger King standards. I mean, it’s just like asking for your baby to be born with an extra arm or something.
Also, I think the dream means you’re a closet homosexual: you want babies but you can’t make them with a guy, so in your dream you could just get a baby at Burger King. That’s the only logical explanation.
July 19, 1:21 pm
So, will you be my closet love slave?
July 19, 1:22 pm
EDIT:: This thing double posts like whoa. You outta fiz that.
July 19, 1:23 pm
I’d love your slaves any day...
July 19, 1:27 pm
What do you mean by double posting? Are you hitting the submit button twice or something?
July 19, 1:59 pm
You can hit refresh on the confirm page and it will post again. You could do a meta refresh and fix that problem.
Anyways, back on topic....
I imagine those Burger King babies would end up something like this....
Future Kip/Stephanie mating side effects...
July 19, 3:06 pm
OK I can fix that, although I don’t understand why you’re hitting refresh on the submit page in the first place. I mean, your browser (at least if you’re using IE or Firefox) will warn you that you’re resubmitting form data and ask you if you’re sure you want to do it.
July 19, 3:55 pm
Its the “stupid user” syndrome. I just hit it by instinct and figured your blog here was smart enough to do the right thing. This conversation will certainly skew your reports about people commenting on posts....
July 19, 11:58 pm
Okay I fixed it. After successfully submitting or editing a comment you are redirected back to your comment. If it fails you get some kind of error message. I have also fixed the annoying bug (which only manifests itself on posts with several comments) where you have to scroll way down after clicking Add Comments. Now it will scroll straight to it (on IE and FF.. Opera takes two clicks for some reason..).
Also, there’s a check to make sure you haven’t made a new comment in the last 60 seconds, which will prevent a double-click of the submit button from double-posting (and probably block even more spam).