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Originally Posted by Turtle91
I have had books - purchased from authors on Amazon who I consider better than average - that had books so full of cruft that my iphone choked on them.
I spent a LONG time cleaning out the cruft on one of those...obviously created using one of those word processors that is supposed to "just make it work" ... and I ran out of patience. Now, I'm the kind of guy that will spend hours trying to figure out the right regex for something that I could have manually accomplished in a couple of minutes... so for me to give up on that is saying quite a bit.
That author obviously had no clue what his code looked like...as long as it looked ok in his program he was happy... but the result was that I can't/won't buy any other books from him because it was so bad. Imagine the customers out there that don't have the html/css experience of those on MR - they would either never buy from that author again, leave a bad rating, report the deficiencies to Amazon, or maybe all the above! If I was an author, that would be a risk I'd rather not take. Much easier to have basic understanding of what is needed to make a good product...that is what professionals are supposed to do.
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Turtle:
Brother, you know that I'm 100% on your side, but do you think that regular people--not us--
really notice that? Or do you mean that it was unmissable, even for a pedestrian civilian?
Hitch