What's all that stuff in the source code?

[Pierre Jelenc]

I've been asked to do a favor to a friend and fix the site at

http://www.cwrpartners.com/

I'm totally baffled by the amount of rubbish in the header section; is
that the kind of coding that Microsoft Publisher does in real life? I've
always written my code by hand with a text editor, so I have no idea
what's going on there.

(Not surprisingly, it is not valid HTML or CSS!)

Thanks,

Pierre
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[Harlan Messinger]

Re: What's all that stuff in the source code?


"Pierre Jelenc" <rcpj@panix.com > wrote in message
news:cgird4$1ki $1@reader1.pani x.com...[color=blue]
>
> I've been asked to do a favor to a friend and fix the site at
> http://www.cwrpartners.com/
>
> I'm totally baffled by the amount of rubbish in the header section; is
> that the kind of coding that Microsoft Publisher does in real life? I've
> always written my code by hand with a text editor, so I have no idea
> what's going on there.
>
> (Not surprisingly, it is not valid HTML or CSS!)[/color]

All Microsoft Office products produce web pages like this. It's an elaborate
layout and data definition language. The proprietary attributes are ignored
by conforming browsers, and the non-HTML, non-CSS declarations and so on are
commented out so that non-IE browsers won't see them.

[Pierre Jelenc]

Re: What's all that stuff in the source code?

Harlan Messinger <h.messinger@co mcast.net> writes:[color=blue]
>
> All Microsoft Office products produce web pages like this. It's an elaborate
> layout and data definition language. The proprietary attributes are ignored
> by conforming browsers, and the non-HTML, non-CSS declarations and so on are
> commented out so that non-IE browsers won't see them.[/color]

Oy. Thanks; I think I'll beg off the project, I can feel too many
arguments coming!

Pierre
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[e n | c k m a]

Re: What's all that stuff in the source code?

> I think I'll beg off the project,

Just start from scratch? Re-write the thing, it wouldn't take too long, i'd
imagine.

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Re: What's all that stuff in the source code?

Quoth the raven Pierre Jelenc:
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> I've been asked to do a favor to a friend and fix the site at
> http://www.cwrpartners.com/[/color]

Yikes. 267KB for one page!
[color=blue]
> I'm totally baffled by the amount of rubbish in the header section; is
> that the kind of coding that Microsoft Publisher does in real life? I've
> always written my code by hand with a text editor, so I have no idea
> what's going on there.[/color]

Feel free to snag this sample, which took me about 10 minutes of copy
and paste of your page's text.

http://home.rochester.rr.com/bshagnasty/cwr.html

Approximately 5KB for page and style sheet.
[color=blue]
> (Not surprisingly, it is not valid HTML or CSS!)[/color]

Not surprisingly, my sample is. <g> Play with the styles to taste.

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[Pierre Jelenc]

Re: What's all that stuff in the source code?

Beauregard T. Shagnasty <a.nony.mous@ex ample.invalid> writes:[color=blue]
>
> Feel free to snag this sample, which took me about 10 minutes of copy
> and paste of your page's text.
> http://home.rochester.rr.com/bshagnasty/cwr.html[/color]

Thanks! Oh so much more civilized...

Pierre
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[Frances Del Rio]

Re: What's all that stuff in the source code?

this code you get when you convert a Word file to an html file (by doing
file -- save as web page..) it inserts all this rubbish code, which
only god knows what the purpose of it is.. open any Word file and do
file -- save as web page, then check out code for new html file, you
will see all this convoluted code in there.. I mean the stuff it puts
in is simply mind-boggling...

<b:OhMorphingCo ntext priv="140e">290 </b:OhMorphingCon text>
<b:OhGallery priv="180e">259 </b:OhGallery>
<b:OhFancyBorde rs priv="190e">261 </b:OhFancyBorder s>

anybody knows what all this is???

I strongly suggest -- as others have suggested here, and since you do
know hand-coding -- to recode the site from scratch.. you'll be doing
your friend a great favor... good luck... :) Frances


Pierre Jelenc wrote:[color=blue]
> I've been asked to do a favor to a friend and fix the site at
> http://www.cwrpartners.com/
>
> I'm totally baffled by the amount of rubbish in the header section; is
> that the kind of coding that Microsoft Publisher does in real life? I've
> always written my code by hand with a text editor, so I have no idea
> what's going on there.
>
> (Not surprisingly, it is not valid HTML or CSS!)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pierre[/color]

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Re: What's all that stuff in the source code?

Quoth the raven Frances Del Rio:
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> this code you get when you convert a Word file to an html file (by
> doing file -- save as web page..) it inserts all this rubbish
> code, which only god knows what the purpose of it is..[/color]

Bill Gates knows. The purpose is so you can reimport it into the MS
product without losing formatting.

<snip>
[color=blue]
> I strongly suggest -- as others have suggested here, and since you
> do know hand-coding -- to recode the site from scratch.. you'll be
> doing your friend a great favor... good luck... :) Frances[/color]

Pierre seems happy with the 3.5KB sample rewrite I provided a couple
of days ago. <g>

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