@mattwho said:
"The pen is blue, the pen is blue, the goddamn pen is blue!"
This just gave me a brilliant idea. An all new software package on a CD for $19.95 at your local <name_of_useless_idiotware_outlet/> called "Website Trimmer Fantasic!(tm)"
What it does is reads in a WYSIWYG page/site and converts it to a list of human readable instructions so that the author can follow the instructions and see how soon they get bored with following them.
eg.
Pick up the blue pen.
Pick up the blue pen and get ready to write in big letters.
Pick up the blue pen.
(etc)
They follow each instruction carefully, enter the time it took them to get really bored into the special "Optimized Method Factor Grading(tm)" tool, hand optimize the code and run it through the tool again. Each time they have follow the new instructions and enter the time it took before they get really bored, they get a new Optimized Method Factor Grading(tm).
Once they get a suitably high Optimized Method Factor Grading(tm), say in the order of 368 billion, their web site is ready to publish without any further checking. Website Trimmer Fantasic!(tm) would then search their computer and their hosting server for copies of the original version and overwrite them with the optimized one! Without even need the user to press a "Yes, I'm sure" button!!!
This would have the double advantage of reducing the size of a whole raft of WYSIWYG sites to a few hundred bites that gets rendered as unintelligible guff, reducing the bandwidth wasted on them and making them easier to spot PLUS making a crap load of cash off suckers.