code in the ruins

Well, I finally took the plunge and joined MySpace. I was very reluctant… there's so much mediocrity on the web, and so much of it lives at MySpace. I have two initial thoughts:

1. I've seen uglier HTML code in my life, but it was generated by Word 97; and
2. I've seen more addictive activities in my life, but only in video games (Fallout! Tetris!) and psychoactive drugs.

You'd think that something that was designed to be personalized would have a few more CSS hooks. I managed to get the thing looking better with the help of Mike Industries' setup, which was nicely done, but jeez. When I have to write CSS rules for "table table table table td," something is very, very wrong. Would it kill them to add a few id and class attributes?

Well, it's painful, but I'll get over it. And my page will always be a safe haven from 600-pixel images, autoplaying music, animated GIFs, videos that all start playing at the same time, and high-contrast background images. Such atrocities will never be committed on my watch.