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NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS
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.'"
Maybe we can use this idea to write programs, too.
That's not coding by hand, that's compiling by hand ;-p.
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!
Please refrain from alluding to such explicit language. For goodness sakes, Slashdot is not the Netherlands after 9 PM.
I hear they have people who hand-write the news stories: sentence by sentence, word by word. Can you imagine?
Nice. I once thought about making an image that said, "This site best viewed in Lynx."
The CB App. What's your 20?