FW: uwebd digest: July 11, 2001

[Noah Abrahamson]

Yes, I'm cross posting, but I thought this was particularly salient given
the recent discussion concerning HTML editors "of choice."  Mind you, I,
myself, am not chiefly a hand coder (who has the time?), merely a hand
editor -- but this is kinda funny.


Noah

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Noah Abrahamson
wsu lib sys

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> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 00:01:39 -0400
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> Subject: uwebd digest: July 11, 2001
> 
> From: Kari Chisholm <karic at lclark.edu>
> Reply-To: "University and College Webmasters" <uwebd at listserver.itd.umich.edu>
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:58:41 -0700
> Subject: The Golden GIGO Award
> 
> 
> Colleagues:
> 
> By way of a little summertime humor, I'd like to propose a highly informal
> UWEBD
> award -- we'll call it "The Golden GIGO".  (garbage in, garbage out)
> 
> The point?  Well, from time to time we here in L&C's web team dive into
> websites
> that folks on campus have built using various WYSIWYG web tools - or even (the
> horror!) using "Save As HTML..." in a tool never designed for web development.
> 
> Well, we found one example of gunk so bad (see below), we'd like to nominate
> it
> for the first Golden GIGO, an award for the most egregious examples of garbage
> generated by the various applications.  There are an unlimited number of
> Golden
> GIGO's, so feel free to nominate your own!
> 
> Here is our amazing Golden GIGO.  It was generated using "Save As HTML..." by,
> of all things, Microsoft Publisher 2000.  For those of you keeping score,
> there's exactly 16 bytes of actually useful info (a single fax number) - out
> of
> a grand total of 733 bytes of quasi-HTML crap.  Note the astonishing number of
> bogus tags, misused single-quotes, inline style tags (on bold tags!), etc.
> 
> <span style="font-family:Times"><b
> style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
>      <p class=MsoNormal align="left"><span
> style="font-family:Times"><b
> style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>Fax:
>        503-768-7333 </o:p></b></span></p>
>      </center>
>  </h3>
>  <h3 class=MsoNormal>
>    <center class=MsoNormal>
>    </center>
>  </h3>
>  <span style="font-family:Times"></span><span
> style='font-family:Times'><span style='font-family:Times'><span
> style='font-family:Times'>
>  <h3 class=MsoNormal>
>    <center class=MsoNormal>
>    </center>
>  </h3>
>  <h3 class=MsoNormal>
>    <center class=MsoNormal>
>      <p align="right"> <span style='font-family:Times'><span
> style='font-family:Times'><span style='font-family:Times'>
>        </span></span></span></p>
>    </center>
>  </h3>
>  </span></span></span>
> </form>


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