BeMused

Chilling.

A rather quick conversation with Jett this morning after I’d sent her a link about why Christian Bale is a badass.

shad: http://www.filmwad.com/featured-why-christian-bale-is-a-badass-3312-p.html
jettdelerium: clearly its because he’s made of awesome.
jettdelerium: OMGPICTURE
jettdelerium: THANKSYOU!
shad:
jettdelerium: he was actually NOT an American Magician
jettdelerium: He used his own accent in that film.
shad: thought you might like that…
jettdelerium: Which is Welsh.
jettdelerium: <- just revealed herself to be a total dork
jettdelerium: I finished my school robes! They’re so awesome!
jettdelerium: I now have a full on HP school costume!
shad: I already knew that….and if that previous statement about him being welsh didn’t cement that fact, the robes did the trick…
jettdelerium: hahaha
jettdelerium: You knew.
jettdelerium: Its ok
jettdelerium: Dont worry, I’m not wearing it to the movie
jettdelerium: I’m only wearing it to the Convention. Where everyone else will be wearing them too.
jettdelerium: So, its ok.
jettdelerium: Sort of.
jettdelerium: cause I’m sure the fact that I’m GOING to the convention doesn’t tip the scales.
jettdelerium: You know this is all your fault. You loaned me the book. HAHAHA
jettdelerium: You want me to further demonstrate my Bale dorkness?
jettdelerium: In both pictures demonstrating his committment to serious weight loss?
jettdelerium: He’s looking in his bathroom mirror.
jettdelerium: but you can only tell in the second one, cause the first one isn’t panned back enough.
jettdelerium: well, ok. I guess you can see the sink
jettdelerium: but have you seen Equilibrium?
jettdelerium: Cause you freaking MUST.
jettdelerium: I know. I know. Switch to Decaf.
shad: I’m so posting this to my website

She said all that in the space of about 40 seconds or so. I love her. She makes my day.

This is killing me…

A lot of the bank sites I work on are older designs. As such, they use older practices. While there’s a sprinkling of CSS and Javascript throughout these sites (and some have more than just a sprinkling), they’re all table-based layouts. When I have to update the pages, which I do constantly, I have to weed through a plethora of <tr> and <td> tags trying to find what I’m looking for. It’s usually not difficult, but all those tables within tables, combined with inline CSS and Javascript just makes me itch.

Unfortunately, my boss doesn’t have any real concerns about adhering to web standards, and I’m not sure how to make her understand the importance of keeping the content (HTML) separate from the presentation (CSS) and separate from the behavior (Javascript). While there are pages that have links to external CSS and JS files, for every one, there are a hundred more that have all three elements combined together.

I’m going to have to figure out a plan of attack and make her see the importance of Web Standards and separation of content vs. behavior and presentation. If only for my own sanity.