Know when to <hold> them
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I admit it. I like to play the occasional online poker. I'm not very good, so I don't play all that often. In fact, I go for very long periods of time without even logging in.
While doing some Start Menu Maintenance, I found the last poker room I hustled for a sign-up bonus. I couldn't remember if I still had money on there or not. So I signed in. After updating itself to the latest revision, it took me to the lobby. Seems I still had $35 there. Yay, lunch money.
And then I saw, in the upper left corner, the news scroll. It slowly rolls one line of text across the screen, marquee-style. Well, imagine my surprise when I read what today's news was-- doubly so when I realize that it had just updated me to the latest, "greatest" revision of the software:
Yup, the crappy Internet Explorer facade broke down, and I got a glimpse at the ugly, ugly guts beneath:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" >
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<title>WebForm1</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1">
<meta name="CODE LANGUAGE" Content="C#">
<meta name="vs defaultClientScript" content="JavaScript">
<meta name="vs targetSchema" content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5">
</HEAD>
<body MS Positioning="GridLayout">
<form name="Form1" method="post" action="Default.aspx" id ="Form1">
<input type="hidden" name=" VIEWSTATE" value="wtfbbqlolgtfo" />
</form>
</body>
</HTML>
I think I'll be withdrawing my cash.
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Assuming you anonymized the viewstate, which by rights shouldn't even be there since the page has no controls, I don't really see the WTF. Someone forgot to nuke the boilerplate in the template and replace it with an <asp:Literal> control. Makes me want to go "hahaha, idiot" at the coder, not "what the F***" at the code.
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@TwelveBaud said:
Assuming you anonymized the viewstate, which by rights shouldn't even be there since the page has no controls, I don't really see the WTF. Someone forgot to nuke the boilerplate in the template and replace it with an <asp:Literal> control. Makes me want to go "hahaha, idiot" at the coder, not "what the F***" at the code.
Well, to paraphrase, "Code doesn't wtf code. [b]Coders[/b] wtf code."