Monday September 25th, 2006.
Posted by Jason Lashua

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Why do "webmasters" continue with their archaic, incorrect HTML practices?

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT"><!-- ... //--></SCRIPT> IS NOT VALID HTML!

If you people do not know how to do your job, STOP DOING IT OR START LEARNING.

Every day I have to continually fix mistakes other people have made, and the rampant misuse of HTML is all over the place, EVEN large-scale projects like OSCommerce - what a bloody joke. I am convinced there is no worse web application than OSCommerce, from the bloated coding style, to the impossibly tight integration of HTML tables within PHP statements to the outright abuse of HTML. Who in the hell ever gave these people the jobs, the time, the money to start producing such a wasteful pile of junk? There is no excuse for such blinding idiocy.

OSCommerce practically advocates ignorance in HTML because every person out there in the OSC Ecosystem writing contributitions CONTINUES to use the DEFAULT integrated table-based template.

And there's another bloody tradgedy of progamming.. Yea you can install "contributions" to the OSCommerce codebase. It's REAL easy to do, as long as you're an expert programmer and don't mind weeding through the differences between the contribution code and your own, especially because each contribution ASSUMES YOU HAVE A DEFAULT INSTALLATION. WTF?!

Ok, most of them are KIND ENOUGH to comment the major updates so you can easily adapt, but there is a point when you have so many contributions installed that you have to have a keen eye because NOTHING can just be replaced anymore.

It's pathetic, I hate it, I hate incompetent programmers, I hate idiots. I hate OSCommerce.



Edited on Monday September 25th, 2006. by jlashua.
Edited on Monday September 25th, 2006. by jlashua.

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