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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:42am on 2008-10-05

Dear web page coder and/or automatic webification tool author,

If I have to make use of the ability in my browser to edit the page source in the 'view source' tab and have the changes reflected in the tab where I'd been trying to view your page, in order to read the damned thing, then you're doing it wrong.

If enlarging the font to make it easier to read causes horizontal scrolling because you hard-formatted the text into non-wrapping lines, unless I hand-edit the source first, then you're doing it wrong. And additional points off if the page starts off wider than my browser window when I initially load it, before any zooming.

There's at least one right way to convert man(1) pages into web pages. And, as I've observed this morning, at least one dead wrong way to do it.

no love,
Cranky Reader

PS: "<b>SEE</b> <b>ALSO</b>" instead of "<b>SEE ALSO</b>"? I am not impressed. Though that, at least, did not affect readability. What did you do, work from the nroff output with the embedded backspaces for bold, or something, instead of translating from the nroff source to HTML? Sheesh!

[In other news: not feeling at all well lately -- feels kinda like the flu minus a) the respiratory symptoms and b) the fever (as far as I can tell using a (very well cleaned) darkroom thermometer instead of a medical thermometer). Hot and cold flashes, dizziness, weakness, nausea; no fun, really no fun. Makes dragging myself out of the house to the grocery store difficult, though I'll try to go pick up a few things before the Ravens game if I can.]

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posted by (anonymous) at 07:55am on 2008-10-05
Dude, that's weak. There are better tools out there...

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posted by (anonymous) at 02:33pm on 2008-10-06
And, if fixing the formatting USING the embedded page editor in the CMS causes it to throw a coding error that I have to hunt down in the code editor, they're doing it wrong.

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