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Code (slowly) Like it’s 1996

I feel sorry for people who have to deal with the sad and pathetic tag soup that makes up much of the web…

I feel sorry for people who have to deal with the sad and pathetic tag soup that makes up much of the web. Really, those old sites, or heck, even these new sites, that are built using the methods of yesteryear: single pixel gifs, tables for layout (nested who knows how many deep) and code that would only validate if there was an HTML 4.0 TotalMess DOCTYPE.

On top of that, I feel sorry for people who day after day of using their tools of the trade (computer, OS, editors, browsers) are not extremely proficient at using them. It hurts me to see people stumble through simple tasks like find & replace, or have no idea what a “regular expression” is.

Sigh… don’t even get me started on file formats…