21 ATTN: Jamey Wright

Passing a W3C validation and writing good code are two completely different practices. Just because ASP.NET can spit-out “valid” XHTML, doesn’t mean the layout isn’t riddled with nested tables and confusing class/ID assignments. The reason the suite is ignored by “standards gurus” is because those same gurus oppose almost any program-generated markup, because it is usually some of the worst markup on the web—validation or not.

Using Apache, PHP/Perl, mySQL, and perhaps a dash of Javascript you could do ANYTHING you’d ever be able to do using any of the Microsoft products you listed (had to resist an urge to put the cliche dollar-sign in the company name). You might have to get your hands dirty with the markup, but you could’ve saved yourself ~$400.

;)

(Viva la [g]Vim!)

posted at 01:59 pm on February 14, 2006 by Michael Thompson

22 New high in black humour

Regarding Ian Corey’s entry: “The best deals on tsunami victims� has to be the darkest (unintentional) joke I have heard in quite a while, and it is revealing of some unfortunate traits of this medium. Good catch.

posted at 02:08 pm on February 14, 2006 by Michelangelo Iaffaldano

23 Oracle Portal

…and tables nested 7 deep. weep

posted at 03:13 pm on February 14, 2006 by Dave MacEwan

24 So much to learn, so little time

Every hour I spend understanding and perfecting my use of CSS, for example, is an hour I don’t spend learning PHP. And no sooner do I learn enough PHP to impress my boss, than there’s a new kid on the block (Ruby on Rails, I’m looking your way) that offers a better way. I know what I’m going to do when I retire!

posted at 03:21 pm on February 14, 2006 by Trace Meek

25 Zealotry

I definitely can’t stand browser/technology zealots that rant about anything that’s not like the browser/technology they use.

I aim specifically to Opera/Firefox zealots:

• Opera zealots not assuming they have a buggy browser and ranting about FF instead of ranting about IE.

• FF zealots for thinking they are the only alternative to IE and all should switch to FF instead of promoting users to use anything but IE

Then, there’s the PHP zealots, that would simply say anything in Perl is cryptic and useless, and say RoR is the n00bie platform instead of assuming the power it has and trying to compete (say, CakePHP for example).

Let’s just be more tolerant and don’t fight between the well developed and updated platforms, let’s just fight against those who try to keep us stuck in 1998.

posted at 04:23 pm on February 14, 2006 by Gonzalo Rubio

26 Teenagers and other assorted annoyances

I hate spotty teenagers on chat forums with their silly avatars. When some bit of software has yet another bug and you try to use Google to find some sort of solution, you always hit on chat forums populated by teenagers filling pages and pages with rubbish. I also hate “The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA…�. I also hate it when your website works in (what you think is) every conceivable browser and somebody asks, “did you try it in IE/Mac?� I also hate the 256-colour web palette that some people still go on about. (What century do you live in, mate?)

posted at 04:43 pm on February 14, 2006 by Klaas Wijnne

27 Netscape

I hate reminding firefox groupies that Netscape 2 thru 4 was the first truly widespread browser, how do you think spyware got it’s start? Now hackers are being educated by lamebrains that write and comment here to use the dom which is immensely hypocritical to allow validation, yet parse crappy code unwittingly to the end user, the dom also allows more ways to entrap cpu cycles while the user wonders what’s going on. oh forget it!

posted at 05:04 pm on February 14, 2006 by Ricardo Carrasco

28 My pet peeves

Here is my short list of things I hate on the web:

1) Page breaks in articles. I’ve yet to hear a valid explanation for this. Total waste of time (and bandwidth).
2) Websites that don’t work in Safari. WTF?
3) Poor site navigation. It still exists in droves.
4) Gratuitous Flash. Ever band site I’ve ever been to, I’m looking in your direction.
5) The “Web 2.0” buzz phrase. Shut up, already.

posted at 06:26 pm on February 14, 2006 by Dan Boland

29 A lot.

I hate the following:

1. Javascript menus.
2. AJAX — It’s not revolutionizing anything. They tried it like 10 years ago. It failed. It still fails. There are so very few instances where it’s useful.
3. Design over standards.
4. Large static sites with inconsistent markup and the clients that insist you maintain them the way they are.
5. “Web designers” — If you don’t know what markup or CSS is, you’re not designing for the web.

1. “Web 2.0” — eat me.

posted at 06:57 pm on February 14, 2006 by James King

30 Tsunami Victims Search

What are you talking about? On which search engine do you get “Best deals on Tsunami Victims?” I don’t see it on either Yahoo! or Google.

posted at 07:38 pm on February 14, 2006 by John Lascurettes