i. am. fucking. shaking. with. rage.
okay. so. i’ve been doing this HTML thang for what? two years now, more or less. i know what’s up. i’m hep to the process. i do my own code by hand, because i know how badly some programs muck things up. i’ve seen added code that was entirely unnecessary. waste of bandwidth even.
but i have never. seen. anything. remotely. as bad. as THIS.
i’m doing a website for this guy, and he comes over, hooks me up with some software to use. their secretary does all the newsletters in Microsoft Publisher. so i open up a .pub file and export to HTML. bad move. now i have 23,666 lines of code, where the HEAD stops at line 22,400 and the BODY tag begins shortly thereafter. needless to say, all that’s in the head is a bunch of stupid useless and in fact unuseable CSS.
oh yeah, it doesn’t even render very well in IE6. stupid fucking fucktards. fuckity fucker-fucks. laKJhgkngkl;f
23,666 lines of code, which i will have to hand-edit down to something vastly more forgiveable like 800 or something. this for a site i’ve bid a measly $300 on for the work.
fucking.
unbelievable.
and to top it all off, i suspect that the goddamn thing’s the cause of this PC crashing every time i do something unforgiveably stupid, like, say, clicking on a link in IE6 while also having my mail client running at the same time, demoniacal raving lunatic bastard that i am.
UPDATE 02.11.02 5:33pm
the file was about ONE MEGABYTE big (this is just HTML, mind you), and when opened in MSWord filled 428 pages. how’s that for ya? sheeit.
