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David Mark
After spending the better part of yesterday cleaning up a .NET site, I have
to wonder why anyone would want to use it to build anything. This site was
built by a large consulting company, with a big, glossy Web site, filled
with fawning testimonials and no doubt they charged the poor client a
fortune (though they likely won't get another dime out of them when I am
through!)
The front page of this site had nearly 600 HTML validation errors (and they
had the balls to call it XHTML transitional!) It had 2 very simple forms:
email referral and search, each with one textbox. Interestingly enough, the
forms turned out to be one very large form, spanning the entire page. Even
stranger, they wouldn't work at all without client-side scripting enabled
and curiouser still, the submission buttons had script events bound to them
with "javascript:" prefixes inside. And if that wasn't bad enough, this
ridiculous architecture managed to mix them up so that email referrals went
to the search page and searches tried to send email to the query, resulting
in prompts to "enter a valid email address."
This platform seems to exist solely to shield developers from HTML tags,
just as VB and data-bound grids exist to shield "programmers" from coding.
If you can't do the work, why not find another career? I for one am tired
of deplorable Windows apps and Web sites that can't do anything right
(especially the latter.)
And I am not trolling here as I stopped reading posts by Microsoftian stiffs
a long time ago. They complain, they cry, they whine, they make feeble
stabs at flaming, but they never listen or learn anything. I know because I
still encounter VB projects occasionally and once in a great while I peruse
the newsgroups (mostly for laughs.) The same dead-enders are still in there
years after .NET killed VB. They still don't have a clue about event-based
programming and clearly they never will. I just wonder how many of those
zombies have migrated to this .NET BS (probably not nearly as many as have
migrated to CompUSA!) Certainly the bums who made the site in question
haven't a clue about HTML, email, JavaScript or anything else Web-related.
That sounds about right. And now the squealing starts... Clue: I can't
hear you.
to wonder why anyone would want to use it to build anything. This site was
built by a large consulting company, with a big, glossy Web site, filled
with fawning testimonials and no doubt they charged the poor client a
fortune (though they likely won't get another dime out of them when I am
through!)
The front page of this site had nearly 600 HTML validation errors (and they
had the balls to call it XHTML transitional!) It had 2 very simple forms:
email referral and search, each with one textbox. Interestingly enough, the
forms turned out to be one very large form, spanning the entire page. Even
stranger, they wouldn't work at all without client-side scripting enabled
and curiouser still, the submission buttons had script events bound to them
with "javascript:" prefixes inside. And if that wasn't bad enough, this
ridiculous architecture managed to mix them up so that email referrals went
to the search page and searches tried to send email to the query, resulting
in prompts to "enter a valid email address."
This platform seems to exist solely to shield developers from HTML tags,
just as VB and data-bound grids exist to shield "programmers" from coding.
If you can't do the work, why not find another career? I for one am tired
of deplorable Windows apps and Web sites that can't do anything right
(especially the latter.)
And I am not trolling here as I stopped reading posts by Microsoftian stiffs
a long time ago. They complain, they cry, they whine, they make feeble
stabs at flaming, but they never listen or learn anything. I know because I
still encounter VB projects occasionally and once in a great while I peruse
the newsgroups (mostly for laughs.) The same dead-enders are still in there
years after .NET killed VB. They still don't have a clue about event-based
programming and clearly they never will. I just wonder how many of those
zombies have migrated to this .NET BS (probably not nearly as many as have
migrated to CompUSA!) Certainly the bums who made the site in question
haven't a clue about HTML, email, JavaScript or anything else Web-related.
That sounds about right. And now the squealing starts... Clue: I can't
hear you.
