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Old 06-18-2012, 06:12 PM   #33
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Another +1 on that - the HTML has taken a big backwards step in 13.
I'd say "let's get some JavaScript in this ish" but stupid IE out of the box makes you run some modifications to run it directly from your computer and I am going to guess that too many people have that set as their default browser. Otherwise, though... correct me if I'm wrong but I think everything's still table-based rather than HTML/CSS based, which can cause issues on funky-sized monitors (although the spreadsheet portions of the pages, which in fairness make up the vast majority of stuff, should probably remain in tables).

If nothing else, the computer-generated source HTML continues to be a massive PITA to read, and that in turn makes it harder to scrape infos directly from the pages. Compare and contrast the page Killebrew tossed up with the pages at realgm.com, for instance: even though the latter arguably has more information to spit out and does a *lot* more with the info as well, the source code is a lot easier to read.
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