• Nelle (unregistered) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    Sgt. Preston:
    Burgz:
    Funky Chickens is some of the best HTML help out there. Really if i ever have a question i always head over to funky chickens.

    Check it out at www.Funky-Chickens.com.

    I hadn't seen Funky Chicken before, but now I will use it as an inspired example of how NOT to design a Web page (unless you intend it to be used as an optical torture device).

    OMFG.

    Sorry everybody. I think I just killed validator.w3.org.

    Well, it might not be /quite/ dead, but it was certainly feeling very very depressed...

    hahahah made my day ... thanks ... :)

  • AI (unregistered)

    if you have javascript disabled, the full-article link leads you to a server error. (go noscript, this site is allowed now though)

    as for the blink tag, there is one valid use:

    Schroedinger's cat is <blink>not</blink> dead.

  • Andy Dingley (unregistered)

    last 6142 years

    6142 is from 4004 BC (Creation date) to The End Of The World (Unix wise) in 2038, give or take the odd century as an out-by-one error.

  • (cs) in reply to Mexi-Fry
    Mexi-Fry:
    There are simply too many things wrong with that site to start with javascript errors.

    I wasn't talking about the javascript errors, except as a cue to try it in another browser. I was commenting on the presence of the "mouse tail". Open it up in IE and see what I mean.

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to Tom
    Tom:
    last 6142 years

    That's how old the earth is, right?

    It is, at least in Kansas.

  • (cs)

    Funny how LinkSqueeze says it's down, and that it should be fixed in about 24 hours.

    That message was put up 6 weeks ago. I don't think they can tell time!

  • Beau "Porpus" Wilkinson (unregistered)

    The "funky chicken" picture falls into one of my favorite categories of WTF... it's not a bug, and the logic behind it is understandable, and yet the result is nonsensical.

    It reminds me of the way Intellisense is always popping up "ThaiBuddhistCalendar" as a suggestion. I mean, I guess I kinda understand why that's an actual class name... and I guess if it's a real class name, then I kinda see how Intellisense has to show it... but it also conjures up a ridiculous mental picture of the Panchen Lama hunting-and-pecking his way through a VB.NET app.

  • James (unregistered)

    I thought y'all might find my train of thought funny:

    "Hmm, I wonder WTF 'funky chicken html help' is doing there, must be popular."

    [google the phrase]

    "Ahh, it's a popular site. I wonder if anybody has commented as such... yep, looks kind of spammy, actually. And the next several commenters reply about how bad the site is, ironic that it's an HTML 'howto' written in poor HTML. That sounds kind of funny."

    [visit the site]

    "Oh holy God, that's terrible. Pink and purple everything, man, so ugly, and -- wait, 'Resources for Your MySpace® Profile'? OK, that explains everything."

    The funny thing is, it also may explain some of why reading MySpace pages is almost always exactly like having your eyes dragged over rough, dirty concrete.

    It makes me wonder which came first: the Funky Chicken or the rotten (MySpace) egg? (sorry!)

  • (cs) in reply to Mexi-Fry
    Mexi-Fry:
    Bah! I'm a programmer. Don't have to spell it right... just have to spell it the same =)
    Assuming you wrote your own language.
  • (cs) in reply to Random832
    Random832:
    Mexi-Fry:
    There are simply too many things wrong with that site to start with javascript errors.

    I wasn't talking about the javascript errors, except as a cue to try it in another browser. I was commenting on the presence of the "mouse tail". Open it up in IE and see what I mean.

    I know... but it gave me an opportunity to make fun of the site again. Surely you can understand :)

  • liquidsnk (unregistered) in reply to Mexi-Fry
    Mexi-Fry:
    FredSaw:
    Mexi-Fry:
    ParkinT:
    It appears the message has been tampered with

    {I won't even mention the dangling participle!!}

    ummmm... to late.
    That is an outrage up with which I will not put! (Misspelling "too", not dangling a participle)
    Bah! I'm a programmer. Don't have to spell it right... just have to spell it the same =)

    "Compile Error: Ambiguous Name Detected": to

  • CastrTroy (unregistered) in reply to Burgz
    Burgz:
    Funky Chickens is some of the best HTML help out there. Really if i ever have a question i always head over to funky chickens.

    Check it out at www.Funky-Chickens.com.

    That reminds me of an HTML site I used to frequent when I was first learning HTML back around 1998. Check out this site Sizzling Jalfrezi HTML

    For those who are still confused at what I'm talking about, Chicken Jalfrezi is a dish that I think originates in India.

  • waz (unregistered)

    I'm playing grammar nazi here, but the box in the first image should read "Relevance"

  • (cs) in reply to Anon_Coder

    If you're going to sign up a short link site, shouldn't you at least use a super-short url for the brand (like linksqz.com) to get the idea across?

    Anon_Coder:
    Burgz:
    Funky Chickens is some of the best HTML help out there. Really if i ever have a question i always head over to funky chickens.

    Check it out at www.Funky-Chickens.com.

    Sadly ironic that this HTML help site doesn't have a doctype thus rendering it's HTML impossible to validate and your browser stuck in quirks mode.

    I suspect this is far beyond the power of strict mode to help.

    Sgt. Preston:
    I hadn't seen Funky Chicken before, but now I will use it as an inspired example of how NOT to design a Web page (unless you intend it to be used as an optical torture device).
    Try this one on for size then: http://noneinc.com/RIAAEM/RIAABlog.html
  • (cs)

    Creation of the earth was 5768 years ago. (Assuming the first year was year 0, not year 1).

    The Messianic era will be here by 6000 so not sure they will need the software to be so forwardly compatible.

  • Ra (unregistered)

    Earl Purple - "Creation of the earth was 5768 years ago. (Assuming the first year was year 0, not year 1).

    The Messianic era will be here by 6000 so not sure they will need the software to be so forwardly compatible."

    Fools! You're ALL wrong! Firstly, that's 5768 --> BC <-- when Iris and Osiris bugged me to create some big ants. I work on commission you bastards, and I don't get paid until you reach the Cydonian pyramids so GET TO IT!

  • Joe (unregistered)

    You simply have to love a html help site that lists "MARQUEES" as their third tutorial, right after "BASICS" and "FONTS".

    Only a fool would think that the other stuff like "text", "graphics" and "links" are a good place to start web development.

  • Zombie_Hunter (unregistered)

    Didn't know about the website (thanks) but the < blink > tag and "funky chicken" reminds me of back in the day on the alt.epilepsy newsgroup when we decided that the best term for an epileptic fit was "doing the funky chicken" :)

    Captcha: good times, good times

  • Zombie_Hunter (unregistered) in reply to Zombie_Hunter
    Zombie_Hunter:
    Didn't know about the website (thanks) but the < blink > tag and "funky chicken" reminds me of back in the day on the alt.epilepsy newsgroup when we decided that the best term for an epileptic fit was "doing the funky chicken" :)

    Captcha: good times, good times

    Submitted too soon there - just checked that abortion of a site. My eyes! The goggles do nothing!

  • %20 (unregistered) in reply to foxyshadis

    Thank you. Collecting and Spreading Spoofing, Interdicting, Decoy files since 2003. %20 -Consumer Whore -Corporate Shill -Wannabee Cultural Chimera -part time music fan

  • (cs) in reply to foxyshadis
    foxyshadis:
    If you're going to sign up a short link site, shouldn't you at least use a super-short url for the brand (like linksqz.com) to get the idea across?
    Anon_Coder:
    Burgz:
    Funky Chickens is some of the best HTML help out there. Really if i ever have a question i always head over to funky chickens.

    Check it out at www.Funky-Chickens.com.

    Sadly ironic that this HTML help site doesn't have a doctype thus rendering it's HTML impossible to validate and your browser stuck in quirks mode.

    I suspect this is far beyond the power of strict mode to help.

    Sgt. Preston:
    I hadn't seen Funky Chicken before, but now I will use it as an inspired example of how NOT to design a Web page (unless you intend it to be used as an optical torture device).
    Try this one on for size then: http://noneinc.com/RIAAEM/RIAABlog.html
    I call fake on that one. I reckon someone created it for the purposes of poking fun at people siding with record labels, and for the purposes of optical torture.

    The funky chicken one, on the other hand, suggests the person responsible should be made to publicly apologise, sterilised, then sent to live like an animal in the sewers beneath $BIG-CITY for the rest of his life (or her life: women are just as capable of horrific designs as men are).

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