Dave rants about Web Standards. Dave, as another developer, let me rant on how miserable life can be maintaining other people’s code that generates HTML. I have to dig through loops that serve no purpose other than to generate nested tables to serve the whim of a creative director who, in a better world, would be better served by a lashing at the hands of a usabability engineer. If a font element is changed one place, then it must be changed in a hundred others to produce consistent output. The code generates invalid HTML which makes debugging and changes a nightmare. All of that bastardized excuse for markup has generated code so foul that a reasonble person would be right to abandon and replace. The FONT element is a piece of crap, which adds to schedules, breaks budgets, and create code that we cannot maintain without great effort and pain.
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