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The Register, Monday, December 18,2023
WHO, ME? As the year rolls down to its inevitable conclusion, we're running out of Mondays. But have no fear, gentle reader - future Mondays will bring you further installments of Who, Me? in which Register readers share their tales of tech support gone wrong.
On this particular Monday, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "John" who, it seems, missed the lesson about never putting placeholder text anywhere it might find itself in front of the eyes of someone who ought not to see it. Instead, he learned the hard way: on the job.
Back at the start of the century, John was working as a developer for a web design business. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was the dominant browser at the time, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) were only just starting to tame the dominant designs of the time - the horror that was nested tables inside nested tables inside nested tables. Ugh.