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Is it just me or is the html for this page really ugly? Code like this gives me horrible flashbacks to the frontpage days: td id="_description_1" Not to me
by jerhinesmith 17y ago
Is it just me or is the html for this page really ugly?
Code like this gives me horrible flashbacks to the frontpage days:
td id="_description_1"
Not to mention a meta tag outside of the html block and class and ID names that make Hungarian notation look pleasant.
- Roridge 17y agoIf I was Microsoft I would have made it just as bad.
- axod 17y agoIt's certainly consistent with their other online properties.
- altano 17y agoHow would you significantly improve this html?
- jerhinesmith 17y agoFor starters, instead of using integers all over the place, I would use a cleaned up version of the browser name (i.e. _description_1 becomes internet_explorer_description, _installLink_1 becomes internet_explorer_download, etc.). If they're using the IDs to do the randomization, that could be moved to class names that could easily be picked up by the javascript (instead of looking for _item_id_1 through _item_id_5, just pick up any div with a class of "first-tier" and randomize those). Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but it seems like it would be easier to maintain (which for a single page site, might not really be an issue).
- altano 17y agoThat's it? That's your idea of the difference between "really ugly" HTML and good HTML? Kids these days... makes me feel so old.
- rbanffy 17y agoIt's probably designed against every SEO guideline in the book and then some. The fewer people who get to this page, the better for Microsoft.
- acg 17y agoI doubt it's been written by hand or is maintained by hand: it may also be styled to be rendered in a dialog.