Have to vent

[SuperSheep]

So, I've been working on a website for a business for the last several months and as most of the work up to this point has been coding, I have only recently begun to go back through the HTML markup and CSS to clean them up a bit and I came to the conclusion that...

Whoever decided to make Padding not part of Width is a freakin moron and needs to be held accountable for mine, and countless other developers who've had to deal with this! Why on earth do I need not one, but two specs (margin and padding) that go beyond my content's \"width\" value. Why not throw one of them out?

I mean, when you think padding, I think of packaging something in a box and the \"padding\" is the bubble wrap and my box is well...my box, and the width of the box is well...the width of my box. Who the F thinks padding is on the outside of the box? WHO!

Then, you got the term IE Box Bug which considering how most people think of IE, is meant to be a bad thing, when in fact Microsoft got it right (for once). So, now we need CSS3 and some new spec to actually make a box the width we want with the padding on the inside where it's supposed to be.

Coulda saved a lot of time and just shot whoever's brain child this was.

[Spidey]

I sometimes wonder if software developers live in the same world as I do.

[fliptw]

developers ideally should read documentation before implementing it.

[Xamindar]

And big evil corporations should follow standards.

[TechPro]

What's the fun in that?

[SuperSheep]

developers ideally should read documentation before implementing it.

It has been a while since I worked on a CSS based website so I have to admit, the last time I designed one was when IE ruled the roost and padding just worked as it should.

However, the spec sucks, and even after reading it, it still sucks!

[SuperSheep]

I sometimes wonder if software developers live in the same world as I do.

Well, I have a mechanic friend who could go on a tirade about how the design of a particular component on a car makes his life miserable and what special tools he requires because of it. I simply roll my eyes, kinda like what your doing, and thank god I don't have his job. heh.

[Foil]

I think every developer has stories of the crap they have to deal with.

My favorite right now is an obscure bug I recently tracked down to a bit of code which looked something like this (names changed to protect the innocent):

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void SomeClass::Load()
{
  LONG lVal = GetIndex();
  m_pObject = (CObject *)lVal; // use the pointer to store the index; we have a function to fix this later
}

[SuperSheep]

I think every developer has stories of the crap they have to deal with.

My favorite right now is an obscure bug I recently tracked down to a bit of code which looked something like this (names changed to protect the innocent):

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void SomeClass::Load()
{
  LONG lVal = GetIndex();
  m_pObject = (CObject *)lVal; // use the pointer to store the index; we have a function to fix this later
}

Ouch! I've been working with C# for this project and at first I really missed pointers...I'm starting to not miss them so much anymore.

[Verran]

disabled=\"disabled\"
checked=\"checked\"

Makes so much more sense as a standard than
disabled=\"true\"
checked=\"true\"

*sarcasm intended*

HTML and JavaScript is teh f*cked up.