[Wsuug] Conditional CSS revisited

[Andrew Jaswa]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Reese <reese at inkworkswell.com> wrote:
> Andrew Jaswa wrote:
>
>> If by sparkling clean code you mean valid markup then I'm all for it.
>> If you mean pretty code, I could care less. You can have valid ugly
>> looking code. View source (CSS and JS) on gmail or really any Google
>> web based product. Their code isn't "nice" looking. I'm sure that they
>> have nice looking code that they produce on the backend of things
>> before it gets processed by the servers. And I would bet that it is
>> because they want maintainable code.
>
> I don't see it as purely a validation or a pretty issue, though proper
> use of whitespace does improve maintainability - as well as make it
> easier to spot syntax errors.
>

Ok now I'm confused.

What did you mean by this:

"Who is opposed to shiny, sparkling clean code at the presentation level?
Sure, it means slightly more obfuscated code behind the scenes..."


In my book the presentation level is what *gets sent* to the browser
and not necessarily what is written *to get sent* to the browser.

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Andrew Jaswa
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