No, you're not wrong....

Posted by Hunter [65.186.201.54 - dsl-65-186-201-54.telocity.com] on 07 April 2002 at 14.10.35 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: Y'know.... posted by Gremlin on 07 April 2002 at 13.01.30 ZuluTime:

No, that's not a professional site. It's a horrible, and in some ways outright hypocritical site.

Here's what's wrong with that site. Or at least, what I can find wrong with it.

I opened it in all three browsers available on my system. Here's the results of each:

Microsoft Internet Explorer

That showed me what you got to see. The popupwindow that exists even though Sara bitched and moaned about it, and said that it was stupid and inane and annoying. And everything else.

Which includes:

1. A MARQUEE. An actual Marquee tag. That annoying scrolling thing. In H1 font. And what's truly annoying about it is that it's javascripted so it changes directions, and slows down when you mouseover it.
   
2. An epileptic-siezure inducing BLINK.
   
3. The damned script that makes it impossible to see where a link is going because it's taking up your location bar with some bullshit. One letter at a time.
   
4. Links that change colour on mouseover, but don't change colour once you've clicked on them. Compounded with a list of images that's just a string of numbers....
   
5. Stolen images from MapQuest, which is copywrite infringement.
   

That's all I'm going to mention for now. I don't want to say anything more until I actually look at the code.

Netscape

The popupwindow opened to a fullsized screen. Then the site crashed my browser. It's not NetscapeFriendly.

Opera

It blocked the popup window. Why? Because Opera's cool like that.

What it also did was show up in my default browsercolour settings, which means someone didn't set a bgcolor. I won't know until I actually view the source, which, of course, Opera will allow me to do no matter what.

Oh look, a !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 //EN" tag up top. Can anybody say WYSIWIG? I know you can....

And cascading stylesheets. No wonder it doesn't work in Netscape or Opera....

Viewing frame source. Ooh, conclusive proof: meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.75 [en] (Win98; U) [Netscape]"

Fuck, this sourcecode is making me sick....

Then again, my own sourcecode frequently makes me sick, but I look at so much of it anymore....

Anyway, this is a website that's somehow created with Netscape Composer, but doesn't like the version of Netscape which comes with Composer, has elements that appear to work only in IE....

AND HE FORGOT TO SET A BGCOLOR AND TEXT COLOR IN THE FUCKING BODY TAG? FUCK, NETSCAPE COMPOSER FUCKING DOES THAT FOR YOU!

AND THE FUCKER CALLS HIMSELF MORE OF A PROFESSIONAL?

Whatever, AOLBoy....

Come talk to us after you don't have to 'try to figure out how to turn a .bmp into a .jpg', and possibly after you don't have to fucking get your scripts from someone else's website.

Y'know, I've got nothing against WYSIWIGs. I learned from Netscape Composer. But that was in 1998, for fucks sake.

Ohwell. I need this window to get back to editing code now....

Y'know, in that composer thing called "WordPad".

And possibly in that 'animating tool' that 'isn't intended for webdesign' they call Flash.

On that note, pretty soon, my site's gonna have some neat shit. So stay tuned, and all that.

~Hunter

Follow Ups:

• More good news.... posted by Gremlin [65.186.201.54 - dsl-65-186-201-54.telocity.com] on 07 April 2002 at 21.53.13 ZuluTime (2)
  • Re: More good news.... posted by Rick [12.253.254.58 - 12-253-254-58.client.attbi.com] on 08 April 2002 at 23.12.38 ZuluTime (0)
  • Travesty. Hah! It's a pun! -nt- posted by Hunter [65.186.201.54 - dsl-65-186-201-54.telocity.com] on 08 April 2002 at 03.05.58 ZuluTime (0)