Seriously, what the hell were they thinking?
So here’s how I work when I do up my auctions. I open up Macromedia Dreamweaver where I have my auction template set up all nice 'n purdy. I have DW set up to display a split code view/design view so that if I want to make any changes to the raw code by hand I needn’t open a new window or change views. My code view display does what any self-respecting programming IDE does: It indents HTML code with each new open tag and outdents when those tags are closed. It is also set to word-wrap long text lines at 80 characters. (This is a setting I probably should have change to be longer but it never bothered me enough to take the initiative) Until recently, posting eBay auctions this way has worked flawlessly; my auctions would be formatted just fine, thank you very much.
Now eBay went and fucked it all up.
Now, when I post my code in the HTML tab of the eBay listing window, it retains the indented spacing of all text! What the hell? HTML is designed to ignore more than one space between <br> and <p> tags. But noooo. What does eBay do? It sticks a freakin’ million tags where they have no business being! The result? All of my paragraphs have a metric assload of unnecessary and excessive spaces all over the damn place! This paragraph, for example, would look something like this:
Now, when I post my code in the HTML tab of the eBay listing window, *it retains the indented spacing of all text!* What the hell? HTML is designed to *ignore* more than one space between <br> and <p> tags. But *noooo*. What does eBay do? It sticks a freakin' million tags where they have no business being! The result? All of my paragraphs have a metric assload of unnecessary and excessive spaces all over the damn place! This paragraph, for example, would look something like this:
Hey! eBay! You’re not microsoft! Stop fucking with my HTML!
Now I had to go and change my entire fucking template to change the code view to remove all word wrap and outdent all text lines to column 0 so it doesn’t look like complete ass. Except now my code view looks like complete ass.
Fuck.