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Randomness ([personal profile] randomness) wrote2012-04-02 04:36 pm

I guess some web coder at Kayak.com is irritated at IE.

Embedded in many of their hotel results pages is this comment:

<div class="hidden">
Dear bill Gates! Why does your browser ignore inline styles unless they are specified
inside a div, that also must have content? Isn't that crazy?
<style type="text/css">

[identity profile] taura-g.livejournal.com 2012-04-02 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
*snarf*

[identity profile] sylphon.livejournal.com 2012-04-02 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
*snicker* Gotta love it.

[identity profile] whitebird.livejournal.com 2012-04-02 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
10 points for amusing. -5 points for not addressing it to Ballmer, the current monkey in charge.

[identity profile] contrariety.livejournal.com 2012-04-02 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
-1 point for inconsistent capitalization. If you're gonna write a burn, it should look well-formatted. "bill gates" or "Bill Gates", but not "bill Gates".

[identity profile] whitebird.livejournal.com 2012-04-02 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Eh, they could have been using a naming schema that identifies things as firstpartSecondpart... and just forgot that Bill Gates isn't actually a variable...

[identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com 2012-04-02 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Who knows? This may be old code.

[identity profile] whitebird.livejournal.com 2012-04-02 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, true, but on the other other tentacle, Gates stepped down as CEO in 2000...