Functionally Functional
by in CodeSOD on 2011-02-28Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology (or, Classic ASP as it's called these days) was designed to an easy way to build web applications: just code some HTML and sprinkle some VBScript between <'% ... %>
blocks. It was (and, for the most part, still can be) a decent, simple tool for building simple things.
Of course, there's one big problem with simple tools: they're simple, and certain developers are too smart for simple. And that brings us to Catherine P, who's found herself maintaining a sprawling mess of a Classic ASP system that should have been retired years ago. Of the many "innovative and unique" patterns introduced by the original developer is "limiting the amount of JavaScript sent to the browser." As to how is this wizardy is accomplished... there is code like this is in the header of each page.