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caryhartline | 8 years ago

If you're wondering why that page looks the way it does, well:

> <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

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hnlmorg|8 years ago

It's easy to snigger at the code generator used for that site yet the signal to noise ratio for the content itself (which, if we are completely honest, is the metric that really matters) is still better than half the sites that use trendy frontend frameworks and passes JS lint.

quickben|8 years ago

It's short, informative, and up to the point.

tigroferoce|8 years ago

To give some context, I have studied with that professor and I can say that the guy is not super up to date with presentation technology: at the time (its was 2004) he was still using hand-written transparencies projected with an overhead projector. The readability was close to zero.