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icallaci · 07-02-2015, 02:06 AM

I just spent hours fixing a book that had one class overridden almost SIX THOUSAND times in a dozen different ways. Why bother creating a class that centers text if you override it so that the text is never centered? Or a top margin of 1em if you force it to 0em or 2em but never use the default of 1em? I don't get it. It's much more work to override a class a bazillion times than simply to create a class that does what you want. How does this happen? I suspect a WYSIWYG editor from hell. I can't imagine someone would code this way on purpose.

07-02-2015, 02:06 AM	#32
icallaci Guru Posts: 819 Karma: 6528026 Join Date: Sep 2012 Device: Kobo Elipsa	I just spent hours fixing a book that had one class overridden almost SIX THOUSAND times in a dozen different ways. Why bother creating a class that centers text if you override it so that the text is never centered? Or a top margin of 1em if you force it to 0em or 2em but never use the default of 1em? I don't get it. It's much more work to override a class a bazillion times than simply to create a class that does what you want. How does this happen? I suspect a WYSIWYG editor from hell. I can't imagine someone would code this way on purpose.