[wellylug] CSS/HTML Gurus?

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Thu Nov 17 22:41:43 NZDT 2005


John Durham wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 08:59 +1300, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> 
>> Lazy writers can produce horrendous masses of spaghetti code, using
>>  *any* method, even the 'notepad' or 'vim' method. Good writers can
>> also produce horrible code if they are under a deadline and the
>> requirements keep changing. Also in anything more complicated than
>> a single page site, everyone seems to have a different style.
>> Understanding the previous person's style does help a lot in
>> debugging and modification. After two or three people have handled
>> the code almost any style would be lost, and the code much more
>> difficult to add to.
>> 
>> I blame entropy.
>> 
> Isn't that what CSS is for (standardising font, format etc over an 
> entire site?)
> 
CSS has nothing at all to do with code, has it? Few sites are purely 
static these days.

Cheers,

Cliff




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