Comments on: Why HTML Sucks http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/ Page Rank Secrets, SEO, Marketing, Business and Money Making Techniques Fri, 18 May 2012 20:10:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: NullOp http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-19443 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:19:46 +0000 http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-19443 HTML, in short, is a horror story. I don't know why were still using it. Probably because its easy to get something on the screen but it totally sucks otherwise. HTML, in short, is a horror story. I don’t know why were still using it. Probably because its easy to get something on the screen but it totally sucks otherwise.

]]> by: Mary Wallace http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-13516 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:55:10 +0000 http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-13516 I completely disagree HTML rocks! editing it is easy. I completely disagree HTML rocks! editing it is easy.

]]> by: rolfen http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-12991 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:30:51 +0000 http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-12991 HTML is limited and not flexible or elegant enough, you have to resort to hacks... The bad part is you're often halfway through something when you realize that what you are trying to do will not work, and you have to start over using another method. All it's features are crippled. absolute positioning? ok, but you will loose containment rules. divs? ok but you cannot vertical-align to the middle. etc. HTML is limited and not flexible or elegant enough, you have to resort to hacks… The bad part is you’re often halfway through something when you realize that what you are trying to do will not work, and you have to start over using another method. All it’s features are crippled. absolute positioning? ok, but you will loose containment rules. divs? ok but you cannot vertical-align to the middle. etc.

]]> by: Jean-Pierre Rupp http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-12226 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:14:32 +0000 http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-12226 Fast-forward a few years, and all web browsers have XHTML support. If you publish your page with the .xhtml extension, chances are your HTTP server will serve it with MIME type "application/xhtml+xml" instead of "text/html". If this is the case, your web browser, particularly Mozilla Firefox, will read the page as XML, and will be much less forgiving handling the code. Most modern web browsers can read pages served as XML. Fast-forward a few years, and all web browsers have XHTML support. If you publish your page with the .xhtml extension, chances are your HTTP server will serve it with MIME type “application/xhtml+xml” instead of “text/html”. If this is the case, your web browser, particularly Mozilla Firefox, will read the page as XML, and will be much less forgiving handling the code. Most modern web browsers can read pages served as XML.

]]> by: NFL Lockout http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-12202 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:14:30 +0000 http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-12202 As a programmer I have never had much use for plain HTML. Honestly I prefer the functionality of proper application code. As a programmer I have never had much use for plain HTML. Honestly I prefer the functionality of proper application code.

]]> by: Anon http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-6814 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:27:01 +0000 http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-6814 I agree too but it will never happen. If you implement strict html parsing you will doom the html to a non evolving state because backward compatibility will be painful. I agree too but it will never happen. If you implement strict html parsing you will doom the html to a non evolving state because backward compatibility will be painful.

]]> by: Stif http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-6242 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:02:11 +0000 http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-6242 I completely agree. If I spend some time designing for example 3 webpages for a webshop that are visualy attractive and correspond to css and html best practices. I can write the backend code for that webshop in half the time. It's depressing how much time one has to spend making things visualy attractive and supported by most common browsers while writing the application code keeps getting easier. Why hasn't anyone tried to make writing webpages easier. I can't be the only one who thinks: HTML and CSS suck!!! I completely agree. If I spend some time designing for example 3 webpages for a webshop that are visualy attractive and correspond to css and html best practices. I can write the backend code for that webshop in half the time. It’s depressing how much time one has to spend making things visualy attractive and supported by most common browsers while writing the application code keeps getting easier. Why hasn’t anyone tried to make writing webpages easier. I can’t be the only one who thinks:
HTML and CSS suck!!!

]]> by: The Scribe of Rotten Hill http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-4829 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:48:51 +0000 http://www.gootheory.com/2006/01/27/why-html-sucks/#comment-4829 I agree. I was shocked when I first started to write html after around 20 years of "proper" programming. To be fair though, Firefox is pretty hot on pointing out css errors. A little too hot sometimes. I agree. I was shocked when I first started to write html after around 20 years of “proper” programming.

To be fair though, Firefox is pretty hot on pointing out css errors. A little too hot sometimes.

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