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Old 12-20-2020, 10:29 AM   #9
Brett Merkey
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I've never seen anything like this before.
I was once assigned by a long-suffering employer to evaluate a browser-based application from SAP, the German software giant. Altho the app was essentially only one screen, the CSS file was over 500k. (!) Given that I was the visual designer and code lord and master of a suite of 6 multi-screen apps, all using a common stylesheet less than 6k, I was skeptical the damn thing would even run on a typical client machine.

It did. The code was parsed, somehow, without smoke coming out of the CPU. I was very disappointed.

That is the wonder of modern computers—even shit code can run fine.

Last edited by Brett Merkey; 12-20-2020 at 10:40 AM. Reason: effete aesthetic requirements
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