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If you're wondering why that page looks the way it does, well: > <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office
by caryhartline 9y ago
If you're wondering why that page looks the way it does, well:
> <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
- hnlmorg 9y agoIt's easy to snigger at the code generator used for that site yet the signal to noise ratio for the content itself (which, if we are completely honest, is the metric that really matters) is still better than half the sites that use trendy frontend frameworks and passes JS lint.
- quickben 9y agoIt's short, informative, and up to the point.
- tigroferoce 9y agoTo give some context, I have studied with that professor and I can say that the guy is not super up to date with presentation technology: at the time (its was 2004) he was still using hand-written transparencies projected with an overhead projector. The readability was close to zero.
- _ZeD_ 9y agoBTW: if OpenBSD choose comic sans for their presentation a reason should be -- cfr: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9240906 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9240906