NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS

NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS 496

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @10:43PM 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.'"

NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS

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Great idea! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @10:47PM (#23247586)

Maybe we can use this idea to write programs, too.

Another opportunity to post... (Score:4, Funny)

by bennomatic ( 691188 ) writes: on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @10:48PM (#23247590) Homepage

The badge [dimspace.com] I used to put on all my sites...

Re:Hand-coding? (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @10:56PM (#23247646)

That's what SHE said

That's nothing. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @11:10PM (#23247726)

I once built a child with my bare hands using nothing but some spare protein strands I had lying around.

I feel OLD. (Score:4, Funny)

by Valdrax ( 32670 ) writes: on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @11:11PM (#23247744)

wysiwyg (what you see is what you get)
I remember when this acronym was so frequently used as a selling point in the 80s that you wouldn't have had to explain it.

Re:I "hand coded" both of my kids (Score:3, Funny)

by PC and Sony Fanboy ( 1248258 ) writes: on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @11:20PM (#23247806) Journal

translation: my 'wife' got pricked with a needle, instead of being needled with a prick.

text editors (Score:2, Funny)

by Chris Burkhardt ( 613953 ) writes: <Chris@MrEtc.net> on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @11:23PM (#23247818) Homepage

The pages would look even better and load even faster if they used Vi or Emacs. Obviously.

Re:Good (Score:1, Funny)

by Warll ( 1211492 ) writes: on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @11:24PM (#23247834) Homepage

nano, notepad++, emacs,vi...
...Needles, Butterflies...

Re:That's nothing. (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @11:28PM (#23247868)

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

Re:Hand-coding? (Score:5, Funny)

by RuBLed ( 995686 ) writes: on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @11:31PM (#23247894)

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!

Re:text editors (Score:4, Funny)

by rossz ( 67331 ) writes: <ogre@@@geekbiker...net> on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @11:41PM (#23247976) Journal

No Way! If they coded it with emacs, the average reader wouldn't know what 12 keys to hit simultaneously to get to the story.

Re:Hand-coding? (Score:5, Funny)

by nxtr ( 813179 ) writes: on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @11:46PM (#23248022)

Please refrain from alluding to such explicit language. For goodness sakes, Slashdot is not the Netherlands after 9 PM.

And that's not all... (Score:5, Funny)

by swm ( 171547 ) * writes: <swmcd@world.std.com> on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @11:52PM (#23248070) Homepage

I hear they have people who hand-write the news stories: sentence by sentence, word by word. Can you imagine?

Re:W3C (Score:3, Funny)

by JebusIsLord ( 566856 ) writes: on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @11:58PM (#23248118)

oh gee, i dunno... how about... "captcha"??

Re:Another opportunity to post... (Score:1, Funny)

by Gerald ( 9696 ) writes: on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @12:30AM (#23248348) Homepage

I used to use this one [wireshark.org].

Re:Another opportunity to post... (Score:5, Funny)

by bennomatic ( 691188 ) writes: on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @12:43AM (#23248436) Homepage

Nice. I once thought about making an image that said, "This site best viewed in Lynx."

RE: "It's nice to see that not only does..." (Score:2, Funny)

by slysithesuperspy ( 919764 ) writes: on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @10:33AM (#23250542)

Great, now if only they would hire the best journalists!

Re:Hand-coding? (Score:2, Funny)

by Russellkhan ( 570824 ) writes: on Thursday May 01, 2008 @07:25AM (#23261430)

Emacs has a mode for that.

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Great idea! (Score:5, Funny)

Another opportunity to post... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Hand-coding? (Score:0, Funny)

That's nothing. (Score:1, Funny)

I feel OLD. (Score:4, Funny)

Re:I "hand coded" both of my kids (Score:3, Funny)

text editors (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Good (Score:1, Funny)

Re:That's nothing. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Hand-coding? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:text editors (Score:4, Funny)

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And that's not all... (Score:5, Funny)

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