RANT: Word rapes fanfic

[campylobacter]

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, developed HTML back in 1991 so that different computer platforms could read documents consistently, with clear paragraph breaks, italics, bold, smart quotes, and other typographical luxuries.

WHY THE FUCKING HELL, in 2010, do I need to use $300 Dreamweaver software to generate clean HTML? And where the fuck did I misplace my installation CD so I can load Dreamweaver onto my new iMac?

Why can't Microsoft export a simply formatted story, with nothing more complex than italics and smart quotes, into HTML that doesn't fucking DOUBLE the filesize? WTF. Div tags? Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Motherfucking div tags with useless class formatting attributes instead of a simple paragraph tag?

W. T. F?

WHAT THE FUCK?

Also, why the fucking hell do I go through weird differences between LJ/DW, Heliopolis, Wraithbait, All Daniel Fic, AO3, and Area 52 in the way they accept submissions/entries? WTF.

Copy-pasting just DOESN'T work consistently between them; their Javascript routines auto-format whatever I paste into the HTML window and spit out a weird hybrid HTML that works with whatever version of eFiction or Ruby or PHP processing.

Also, WTF with 2 break tags instead of opening and closing paragraph tags. WTF? That's not even remotely semantic.

Fuck fuck fuckitty FUCK.

OK, I'm done now.

Comments

[magnavox-23.livejournal.com]

*Distracts you with Daniel's balls and his long curved member...*

:)

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU.

:-d

:-D

[dannysgirlsg1.livejournal.com]

BEST. DISTRACTION. EVAR!

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

OK, which ep is that from? I'm only in mid-S2 of my first see-thru (aside from S9 & 10 and the movies).

[dannysgirlsg1.livejournal.com]

Talking about my icon?? It's from the behind the scenes Director's Series feature for Lost City in season 7.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yes thank you!

Can't wait to see him playing with his balls.

[dannysgirlsg1.livejournal.com]

You should hear him talk about the 'giant balls' in the Revisions (also season 7) commentary. And then all the stuff he says in the Fallen/Homecoming commentary...(also season 7).

And then there's the bazillion other things he's said that have made me unable to watch specific scenes in SG-1 with a clean and innocent frame of mind ever again.

Shanks has corrupted me.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

OMG, I didn't know MS provided commentary on the DVDs!

So far, all I've heard for SG-1 are RDA, AT, CB, writers, techs, producers, and... Chevron Guy being delightfully crass and juvenile.

[dannysgirlsg1.livejournal.com]

Yep. Shanks did the commentary for 'Double Jeopardy' in Season 4 (since he directed the episode), and 'Fallen/Homecoming' and 'Revisions' in Season 7.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks!

::puts sticky notes on DVDs::

[dannysgirlsg1.livejournal.com]

Always glad to share Shanks info! :)

[cleothemuse.livejournal.com]

Try this out with Word... just a little macro I wrote to make my life a lot easier... :D

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I'm forwarding this to shakespherical. Will use in the future!

We were having deadline trauma with mcshep_match.

[cleothemuse.livejournal.com]

I love, love, love that little program. If there's anything you can think of I need to add to it, lemme know and I'll update it.

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

Dreamweaver sucks.

http://www.notetab.com

Microsoft Word also sucks.

http://www.openoffice.org

Your life is now 1000% more awesome.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Where were those links that when I needed them?

I used Dreamweaver for data tables and Word HTML cleaning. Going dynamic & CSS3 kinda makes Dreamweaver obsolete.

I use TextEdit & Text Wrangler on my Mac, but when I have to open, edit & export the Microsoft Word files people keep sending me, I'm at the mercy of Microsoft. OMG, if I could persuade everyone to stop using MS Word, I would be ecstatic.

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

I always code everything by hand. I'm much happier that way.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

There's no way in holy hell I would ever construct a data table by hand. I applaud you. Edit a table, yes. Build a 20x8 from scratch? That's a recipe for mis-nesting tags and hours wasted in tears for me.

However, I will spend hours hand-typing CSS stylesheets, so I understand the nerd happy, there.

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

OCD > common sense

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

LOL indeed!

[shakespherical.livejournal.com]

Argh...this is my fault. I'm sending you a pouty little picture. Jeans and microphone porn. nom nom nom

http://unclebubby.com/starstruck/images/Expo2K4/MichaelShanks25.JPG

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

THUNK nom nom nom

It's not your fault! It's an ongoing problem that will never, ever end as long as Microsoft rules the roost.

[jood.livejournal.com]

I loathe MS's "HTML" formatting as much as the next sane person (which is with roughly the burning passion of a thousand and eight suns), but equal blame has to go to the online WYSIWYG editors.

It would be easy to code a big data table by hand if manual line breaks in the "code view" window were consistent. But no; either they render extra manual line breaks for every row (or bullet point, or...) or they disappear completely into a ginormous, blinding ball of code.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

OMG, hey you!

I got headdesky on several occasions when DW inserted empty tags and junk code whenever I tried to nest lists. (I adore lists.) It went mental when editing definition lists.

Kinda glad to go back to Old Skool hand markup while learning CSS positioning for layouts. I'm not tearing up the house trying to find my DW installation disks.