[ale] Creating a website (semi-rant)

[Rich Faulkner]

I've seen two things that bug me.  Bloat from junk code and cross
browser issues (both have more to do with the developer but a product of
the tool).  Still comes down to needing to know how to hack this stuff
by hand and how it works at a fundamental level.  I've spent so much
time hacking back junk code from pages to reduce bloat (keeping in mind
a lot of that was in dial-up days).  

I trend towards keeping things simple.  Design simple and maintain as
simple as possible.  But the stuff I deal with lately is not large-scale
enterprise stuff so my sandbox is much smaller now.  Even when it was we
built simple tools for low-end users to work with.  In that way we
created a WYSIWYG and is a bit of an oxymoron in the context of this
thread....

  

On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 11:20 -0500, Jay Lozier wrote:

> On 12/13/2011 11:09 AM, Rich Faulkner wrote: 
> 
> > Properly done anything works better (agreed).  But too often I see
> > CSS used wrong...
> 
> 
> For my curiosity, how does one misuse CSS? I could see if one is
> constantly adding id's and classes for one-off formatting to a page
> might be a problem. Also, not breaking up the stylesheets in a large
> project so each sheet is easier to understand.
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