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February 10, 2004 02:48 AM
Broken: FrontPage banner ad
Kurt Morris writes:
Don't know how long this will be available, but this ad for FrontPage is priceless. Look at line 28. Oops![For the non-Web designers reading This Is Broken: the ad promises that FrontPage has "cleaned up our act," but there's an error in the HTML code displayed in the ad. On line 28, there shouldn't be a slash before the "p". -mh]
They were probably too tired after cleaning up the garbage that Front Page would put into HTML. This is not a good Ad really... it basically says "We were crap before, and now we've cleaned up our mess". Or... it says "Now our product works like most other FREE/CHEAP editors which don't screw up your code". Either way it does not inspire confidence.
I gotta say, this is one of those things that makes working as a designer at microsoft a constant embarassment. We have the resources to do so many things right... why do we screw it up so often?
I thought this was a good ad. *It got my attention*, unlike most ads. And it told me something interesting. Even though I don't want to use FrontPage, it's nice to hear that they're doing something about its lousy HTML. Now if only their Office team would do the same...
Maybe the coding of the ad was outsourced to a coding sweatshop in another country.
Or created by an admin assistant being paid $8.00/hr.
So much for QA
Windows Is Broken...
Nobody has ever seen a fixed windows computer. The only thing thats good about windows is that the box can be used to hold CD cases for real software.
I HATE WINDOWS
One of my friends told me once; "If you ever use Frontpage to create a webpage, I'll freakin break your legs." That was after I told him that the higher-ups were sending me to a Frontpage class. In the end I didn't go, but I heard that a monkey could've passed the test at the end.... So much for MS programmers being intelligent.
This is obviously on purpose, just look at who hosts the ad:
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2026
OSDN? That's the Open Source Developers Network. Obviously a joke.
I have to admit, it's a good one.
Also, you don't need a "/p" at all. is just a tag to make a new paragraph. It's not like if you don't close it, the paragraph will continue through the entire page.
That is a common misconception of MS Explorer people. Explorer is just a lot more forgiving about that sort of thing than other browsers.
Don't think I'm supporting Explorer, because I'm not. I'm just pointing out that, according to most accepted HTML standards, you need the \p tag.
-A windows-hating-Macinosh-and-linux-using-geek
I know Windows is kinda buggy and all, but do you know why that is? It's the most widely used OS in the world! More use = more hackers, more junk, and more spyware!
Windows is badly-written. 3 minutes after I installed a fresh Windows XP Home on a new hard drive, I got an error message telling me that basically, Windows is corrupted and I have to re-install. I didn't even get to install the graphics card driver. Another 35 minutes of my life wasted. Unfortunately, Linksys doesn't make a driver for the WUSB54G for Linux, so I am froced to use Windows until the Prism54 driver is finished. Jello B., technically, the paragraph tag is needed for clean HTML, but it is not required by the W3C.
Yesterday windows media crashed because I was trying to play a song on my hard drive while online. WINDOWS IS MOST DEFINITELY NOT FINE.
In one release of the Lattice C compiler, circa 1984, the release notes said that previous editions of the release notes said that one particular message came from the operating system; this is a mistake, it comes from the compiler.
When I read this, I thought "They are saying that they don't recognize their own error messages".
@Jake:"This could just be closing a nested paragraph tag earlier in the code."
Then where is the opening paragraph tag for the text that antecedes the ? Even if that were the case, this is still not valid, semantic markup. It is broken no matter how you look at it, MS apologist.
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It looks like there is a small grammer mistake as well. There is no spaces in "that's right.We said". So not only did they not check it for technical correctness but they didn't even run it through MS Word
Posted by: Shane at February 10, 2004 11:55 AM