Unsemantic Poo [un-si-man-tik poo]
I had to write a regular expression to access the important bits on that webpage, it was just unsemantic poo.
Definition
A development issue where HTML code is lacking any logical order or semantic meaning. Primarily found in websites of large corporations, flash-based design studios and some Australian public broadcasting websites.
Origin:
Google Developer Day, May 31, 2007. A local Rails developer created the New Inventors Google gadget and was overheard discussing the process in which he encountered the aforementioned unsemantic poo, costing him precious development time.
Solution
Redesign.
More definitions in the Standardzilla Glossary.
Comments
- Tim Lucas says: July 13, 2007 @ 11:44 am
awesome. I’m glad you set this in stone.
Here’s the offending snippet of code straight from the gadget’s source
