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NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS

Posted by kdawson on from the all-the-finest-sites dept.

eldavojohn writes "The design director of NYTimes.com, Khoi Vinh, recently answered readers' questions in the Times's occasional feature 'Ask the Times.' He was asked how the Web site looks so consistently nice and polished no matter which browser or resolution is used to access it. His answer begins: 'It's our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to "hand code" everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results.'"

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  1. Great idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe we can use this idea to write programs, too.

  2. Another opportunity to post... by bennomatic · · Score: 3, Funny

    The badge I used to put on all my sites...

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    1. Re:Another opportunity to post... by Gerald · · Score: 1, Funny

      I used to use this one.

    2. Re:Another opportunity to post... by bennomatic · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nice. I once thought about making an image that said, "This site best viewed in Lynx."

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  3. Re:Hand-coding? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    That's what SHE said

  4. That's nothing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I once built a child with my bare hands using nothing but some spare protein strands I had lying around.

    1. Re:That's nothing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's not coding by hand, that's compiling by hand ;-p.

  5. I feel OLD. by Valdrax · · Score: 3, Funny

    wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) I remember when this acronym was so frequently used as a selling point in the 80s that you wouldn't have had to explain it.
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  6. Re:I "hand coded" both of my kids by PC+and+Sony+Fanboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    translation: my 'wife' got pricked with a needle, instead of being needled with a prick.

  7. text editors by Chris+Burkhardt · · Score: 2, Funny

    The pages would look even better and load even faster if they used Vi or Emacs. Obviously.

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    1. Re:text editors by rossz · · Score: 3, Funny

      No Way! If they coded it with emacs, the average reader wouldn't know what 12 keys to hit simultaneously to get to the story.

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  8. Re:Good by Warll · · Score: 1, Funny

    nano, notepad++, emacs,vi... ...Needles, Butterflies...
  9. Re:Hand-coding? by RuBLed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Overhead at an outsourcing facility:

    Hand-coding agent: I hate this guy, he's refreshing his browser every minute on the same news. I can't keep up.

    Hand-coding supervisor: PrintScreen it!

    Hand-conding agent: Brilliant!

  10. Re:Hand-coding? by nxtr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please refrain from alluding to such explicit language. For goodness sakes, Slashdot is not the Netherlands after 9 PM.

  11. And that's not all... by swm · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hear they have people who hand-write the news stories: sentence by sentence, word by word. Can you imagine?

  12. Re:W3C by JebusIsLord · · Score: 2, Funny

    oh gee, i dunno... how about... "captcha"??

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  13. RE: "It's nice to see that not only does..." by slysithesuperspy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great, now if only they would hire the best journalists!

  14. Re:Hand-coding? by Russellkhan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Emacs has a mode for that.

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