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    honey the codewitch
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    it always comes down to trial and error. make a thing, try a thing, go back and *remake* the thing because DHTML and CSS are funny in a sad kind of way - like an old married couple that hates each other but won't divorce. is there a better way to do it? I mean other than schlepping it off onto someone else, which is my first choice. :laugh: is there some magic to web development that makes it not suck?

    When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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      it always comes down to trial and error. make a thing, try a thing, go back and *remake* the thing because DHTML and CSS are funny in a sad kind of way - like an old married couple that hates each other but won't divorce. is there a better way to do it? I mean other than schlepping it off onto someone else, which is my first choice. :laugh: is there some magic to web development that makes it not suck?

      When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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      Best No-Code Development Platforms Software in 2019 | G2[^] I have some experience with Betty Blocks, and the HTML and CSS part is indeed quite easy, just drag it on the form. Everything else sucks, like no source control, back-end code is also drag 'n drop, don't even try the newest front-end frameworks, weird database without a query language (that I know of)... You can't have your pie and eat it too :D

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        Best No-Code Development Platforms Software in 2019 | G2[^] I have some experience with Betty Blocks, and the HTML and CSS part is indeed quite easy, just drag it on the form. Everything else sucks, like no source control, back-end code is also drag 'n drop, don't even try the newest front-end frameworks, weird database without a query language (that I know of)... You can't have your pie and eat it too :D

        Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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        honey the codewitch
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        it sounds like trading one set of problems for another. and speaking of this webdev crap, the WPF designer is about as bad as all that. Which is why i don't use WPF

        When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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          it always comes down to trial and error. make a thing, try a thing, go back and *remake* the thing because DHTML and CSS are funny in a sad kind of way - like an old married couple that hates each other but won't divorce. is there a better way to do it? I mean other than schlepping it off onto someone else, which is my first choice. :laugh: is there some magic to web development that makes it not suck?

          When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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          Short answer: no. Long answer: neither (D)HTML nor CSS were really designed for the purpose they are used for, namely a browser-independent specification of page layout, etc. It is therefore no surprise that HTML development is so kludgy.

          Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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            Short answer: no. Long answer: neither (D)HTML nor CSS were really designed for the purpose they are used for, namely a browser-independent specification of page layout, etc. It is therefore no surprise that HTML development is so kludgy.

            Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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            honey the codewitch
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            Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

            neither (D)HTML nor CSS were really designed for

            wait, they were designed? I don't buy it. :omg: I figure someone came up with them while drinking. Like "hold my beer"

            When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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              it sounds like trading one set of problems for another. and speaking of this webdev crap, the WPF designer is about as bad as all that. Which is why i don't use WPF

              When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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              I find with WPF that it's far easier just to write the XAML as text and ignore the WYSIWYMIYGBPW* editor as much as possible. (*What you see is what you might imagine you'll get but probably won't).

              Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

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                it always comes down to trial and error. make a thing, try a thing, go back and *remake* the thing because DHTML and CSS are funny in a sad kind of way - like an old married couple that hates each other but won't divorce. is there a better way to do it? I mean other than schlepping it off onto someone else, which is my first choice. :laugh: is there some magic to web development that makes it not suck?

                When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                Well ... there is Blazor: Blazor | Build client web apps with C# | .NET[^] - which should get rid of >50% of the actual suckery: Javascript. It still uses HTML and CSS though :sigh: I haven't tried it - I learned many years ago that anything microsoft count as "before RTM" (or even "before SP1") is realistically called "beta" - but it does look very interesting.

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                  Well ... there is Blazor: Blazor | Build client web apps with C# | .NET[^] - which should get rid of >50% of the actual suckery: Javascript. It still uses HTML and CSS though :sigh: I haven't tried it - I learned many years ago that anything microsoft count as "before RTM" (or even "before SP1") is realistically called "beta" - but it does look very interesting.

                  Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                  honey the codewitch
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                  javascript is actually not terrible for me with jquery. a lot of times it's just spacing and overlapping layout crap that CSS does that takes all my time. I could probably go back to using tables and cut my webdev time in half. I think CSS was designed by committee, and that committee actually hates people - like a committee of misanthropes. "Let's take something conceptually easy and make it nearly impossible to use instead, so that we can make people feel bad about themselves" - CSS working group.

                  When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                    it always comes down to trial and error. make a thing, try a thing, go back and *remake* the thing because DHTML and CSS are funny in a sad kind of way - like an old married couple that hates each other but won't divorce. is there a better way to do it? I mean other than schlepping it off onto someone else, which is my first choice. :laugh: is there some magic to web development that makes it not suck?

                    When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                    honey the codewitch wrote:

                    is there a better way to do it?

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                      honey the codewitch wrote:

                      is there a better way to do it?

                      Microsoft FrontPage — Wikipédia[^]

                      Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                      honey the codewitch
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                      well, i wasn't sure that you hated me before, but now i am. :laugh:

                      When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                        I find with WPF that it's far easier just to write the XAML as text and ignore the WYSIWYMIYGBPW* editor as much as possible. (*What you see is what you might imagine you'll get but probably won't).

                        Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

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                        honey the codewitch
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                        does that somehow make error reporting come back? i love when i put a control on a page and I get no control, and no error. it just warms my black little heart.

                        When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                          well, i wasn't sure that you hated me before, but now i am. :laugh:

                          When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                          Na, it does the job. More or less. I reckon that it does not *completely* fullfill that other requirement of yours that it should not make web development suck. :)

                          Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                            Na, it does the job. More or less. I reckon that it does not *completely* fullfill that other requirement of yours that it should not make web development suck. :)

                            Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                            honey the codewitch
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                            in 2006 microsoft was finally embarrassed enough to discontinue it and instead hide its functionality in sharepoint.

                            When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                              in 2006 microsoft was finally embarrassed enough to discontinue it and instead hide its functionality in sharepoint.

                              When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                              I think it's burried just next to clippy.

                              Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                                I think it's burried just next to clippy.

                                Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                                honey the codewitch
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                                I killed clippy myself, and I'll never tell where i hid the body, except it's the first place you'd look if it wasn't the last place you'd expect.

                                When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                                  it sounds like trading one set of problems for another. and speaking of this webdev crap, the WPF designer is about as bad as all that. Which is why i don't use WPF

                                  When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                                  Sander Rossel
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                                  honey the codewitch wrote:

                                  Which is why i don't use WPF

                                  If you're looking for a good replacement for WPF... Electron | Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.[^] It brings all the bad things of web development and mixes it with all the bad things of desktop development to give you the best desktop development tool ever :D

                                  Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                                    honey the codewitch wrote:

                                    Which is why i don't use WPF

                                    If you're looking for a good replacement for WPF... Electron | Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.[^] It brings all the bad things of web development and mixes it with all the bad things of desktop development to give you the best desktop development tool ever :D

                                    Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                                    honey the codewitch
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                                    Sander Rossel wrote:

                                    It brings all the bad things of web development and mixes it with all the bad things of desktop development to give you the best desktop development tool ever

                                    so they tried to make WPF?

                                    When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                                      javascript is actually not terrible for me with jquery. a lot of times it's just spacing and overlapping layout crap that CSS does that takes all my time. I could probably go back to using tables and cut my webdev time in half. I think CSS was designed by committee, and that committee actually hates people - like a committee of misanthropes. "Let's take something conceptually easy and make it nearly impossible to use instead, so that we can make people feel bad about themselves" - CSS working group.

                                      When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                                      honey the codewitch wrote:

                                      I could probably go back to using tables

                                      Wait, there's another way? :laugh: I don't care what is en vogue, tables rule! :)

                                      "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

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                                        honey the codewitch wrote:

                                        I could probably go back to using tables

                                        Wait, there's another way? :laugh: I don't care what is en vogue, tables rule! :)

                                        "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

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                                        honey the codewitch
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                                        after implementing .clearfix enough times in CSS trying to use its "modern" method (which doesn't work) I tend to agree.

                                        When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                                          honey the codewitch wrote:

                                          is there a better way to do it?

                                          Microsoft FrontPage — Wikipédia[^]

                                          Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                                          Wow, I just had a flashback to PWS and the little merlin looking character! :laugh: Fun times!

                                          "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

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