Who lets these people near a computer?
October 11th, 2007
<tr><TD><FONT SIZE="5" style="color:red">I am so smrt</FONT></TD></tr>
I mean really… REALLY!?!?! C’mon!
This entry was made on October 11th, 2007 @ 14:05 and filed into XHTML & CSS.
Comments 
Grammar Geek wrote on October 11th, 2007 @ 15:04
But look, it’s so pretty and tucks everything into one line.
*ducks and runs for cover…*
Nick wrote on October 11th, 2007 @ 17:10
People like that are nowhere near as dangerous as the developers of IE6. I wonder your very same thought on a daily basis when working to make a script or stylesheet work in IE6 that works in all other browsers without complaint.
Derek wrote on October 11th, 2007 @ 17:31
Yeah. I got that from a site I was asked to look at. Um. I’m going to leave it at that. :)
Notice the tasteful consistency of capital and lowercase markup… that is the sign of an artisan at work.
Ugh…
Shane Ross wrote on October 11th, 2007 @ 22:07
Wow, that breaks my heart. :(
Ian Clifton wrote on October 11th, 2007 @ 22:28
Sadly, that’s not as bad as some that I’ve seen, but I am the kind of person who would be pleased if (X)HTML was handled like XML in that a browser would simply scream “WRONG WRONG WRONG!” instead of interpreting and nicely guessing…
John_Betong wrote on October 11th, 2007 @ 22:52
I wonder if the author has this Home Simpson T-Shirt
BoltClock wrote on October 11th, 2007 @ 23:04
All my friends who know HTML/CSS (or think they do) tend to do worse. It’s pretty saddening but it’s true.
Josef K wrote on October 12th, 2007 @ 0:58
I guess it’s allright unless that smrt-ass got payed for this.
Benno Crombeen wrote on October 12th, 2007 @ 5:20
Yeah that’s definitely wrong mark-up. Everybody knows he should have used capitalized TR and lowecase td and font whaha
Derek wrote on October 12th, 2007 @ 5:23
Wow. You guys have seen worse. Yikes! Remind me to stay away from your clients ;)
Just to be clear, I changed the text. That part wasn’t from their site, but the markup was in all its glory!
BoltClock wrote on October 12th, 2007 @ 6:58
I see things like an ImageReady-sliced layout that contains a table with cells holding almost 150 images and snippets like these:
<body>
<body [attributes which I don't have to name]>
<p COLOR:"#ff0000"; ALIGN:"justify" class=someclass>
<font><FONT><SPAN>text...</SPAN></FONT></font>
I would love to see one of my friends “accidentally” crash IE6 with horribly malformed HTML. I could cheer her on.
I should probably rant about such markup woes too.
Nick wrote on October 12th, 2007 @ 13:39
@Ian:
Sending a content-type of application/xhtml+xml and a doctype of XHTML Strict will do such a thing. It’s more of a pain in the ass than you realize; putting [CDATA] escapes inside script tags makes the code fairly hideous, and forgetting to escape one & causes the whole thing to beef it horribly.
AJp wrote on October 12th, 2007 @ 14:16
I had a website redesign at my old company, and the old graphic designer/webmaster had 60… 60!!!!! 60!!!!!! opening bold/font/span/etc tags around a paragraph of text.
Richard wrote on October 12th, 2007 @ 14:24
Seen worse? This is how we used to make sites in the early 90s. I am still pretty ashamed at some of the stuff I did back then.
Daniel Errante wrote on October 12th, 2007 @ 15:21
1. they need to learn xhtml
2. they need to learn css
then they may be smart…
Cliff wrote on October 12th, 2007 @ 16:52
What’s wrong with it…other than the mispelling of smart? :-)
BoltClock wrote on October 13th, 2007 @ 0:19
@Nick: Will IE7 mind application/xhtml+xml? And what if I use XHTML Trans instead of Strict?
@Richard: Yeah, I just find it a pity they still do this right now.
@Cliff: I hope you’re being sarcastic ;)
Madz wrote on October 14th, 2007 @ 14:13
I remember my first presentation in Derek’s class and I did the page in Frontpage with codes just like that. aaahhhh…good times…lol.
Rim wrote on October 15th, 2007 @ 10:47
Oh I’ve seen worse. To go with AJp’s comment, I once had to redesign pages where single words in table cells were wrapped in about 50 center tags. In every cell of the tables.
Cliff wrote on October 15th, 2007 @ 17:05
@BoltClock: Hells yea I’m being sarcastic. We all know that apart from mispelling smart, color is spelt with a u :-)
primerg wrote on October 19th, 2007 @ 1:31
heh.. i worked with those once or twice a week and they just really breaks my day!
Dipun Mistry wrote on October 28th, 2007 @ 10:50
Aww man, this blog plus comments has made my day. I cant stop laughing!!... especially @Cliff… wow… that is some good error spotting but I think you failed to spot that ‘SIZE’ should also be ‘size’
Sami wrote on October 11th, 2007 @ 14:41
;| care to explain where you got that?