Formatting code in blogs

re: Formatting code in blogs

RB — Sun, 04 Apr 2004 02:48:00 GMT

I've written a HTML WYSIWYG editor and Word is it's second worst enemy (worst is Excel). The "HTML" generated by Word is unbelievably bad. Around 90% of the code is dedicated to trying to clean up Word HTML so that it can be displayed correctly in our (hopefully valid) XHTML websites.

One day when you're in Word, save your document as HTML and veiw it in notepad. The amount of bad HTML in there will amaze you.

So rather than stating that the RTF pasting is extra-broken, it would be more correct to say that the coders didn't have an extra two months to spend writing code to specifically clean up the crap from Word.

re: Formatting code in blogs

Robert — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:31:00 GMT

What's wrong with simply putting your code inside PRE and/or CODE tags? Then you don't end up with all those bizarre MS Office xml tags that take up so much space.

re: Formatting code in blogs

jaybaz_MS — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 04:07:00 GMT

Robert: what smart tags are you talking about? I don't think I've seen them.

re: Formatting code in blogs

Raphaël Balimann — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:57:00 GMT

You may want to read Phil Ringnaldas comments on clean code.

http://philringnalda.com/blog/2004/04/html_is_code.php

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re: Formatting code in blogs

James — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:53:00 GMT

this page doesn't even validate...

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://blogs.msdn.com/jaybaz_ms/archive/2004/03/30/103505.aspx

so you're code isn't that clean!

re: Formatting code in blogs

jaybaz [MS] — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:45:00 GMT

James: Yeah, you're not the first person to tell me. Word generates nasty looking HTML that looks great when rendered. If you have any suggestions on how I can format my blog to look good *AND* have attractive HTML, let me know.

Visual Studio Add-In: CopySourceAsHtml

Needs Improvement — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:53:00 GMT

<p>
<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2004/10/05/238427.aspx">Brad Abrams</a>,
<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jaybaz_ms/archive/2004/03/30/103505.aspx">Jay Bazuzi</a>,
<a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/02/05/67957.aspx">Roy Osherove</a>,
and what seems like the majority of .NET bloggers use Word, Word macros, or Visual Studio macros that use Word
in some way to format their code. A few use
<a href="http://www.manoli.net/">Jean-Claude Manoli</a>'s
<a href="http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/">CSharpFormat</a>
tool. Each solution has drawbacks (opening Word, opening another browser window, copying and pasting, extra steps,
terrible HTML, etc) and formatting code is still painful. So...
</p>
<p>
I've written a simple Visual Studio add-in that allows you to copy source as HTML suitable for pasting into blogs...
</p>

CopySourceAsHtml

Needs Improvement — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:52:00 GMT

Brad Abrams, Jay Bazuzi, Roy Osherove, and what seems like the majority of .NET bloggers use Word, Word macros, or Visual Studio macros that use Word in some way to format their code. A few use Jean-Claude Manoli's CSharpFormat...

CopySourceAsHtml

Bill Shen's Blog — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:42:00 GMT

Spring : falling in love with programming all over again

maps and legends — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:09:00 GMT

Peter Gray left a comment that I can reduce the a part of the spring example even further, from this:public long getNewPrimaryKey(String sequenceName) { JdbcTemplate jdbcTemp = new JdbcTemplate(dataSource); long seqKey = jdbcTemp.queryForLong("select "+sequenceName+".nextval from dual"); return seqKey; } to this:public long getNewPrimaryKey(String sequenceName) { OracleSequenceMaxValueIncrementer osmvi = new OracleSequenceMaxValueIncrementer(dataSource,sequenceName); return osmvi.nextLongValue(); } And you swap the constructor for a call to the bean factory to get an instance of the bean if you have it configured in your spring.xml...

CopySourceAsHtml

Needs Improvement — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 06:25:00 GMT