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

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

  3. 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.

  4. 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?