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Teezha
7y

Boss: We need to make a site but the content will have bolded words where the user can hover over to see more for each term.

Me: Ok sounds simple.

B: It's for a client and we aren't gonna touch it in the future so make it simple.

M：okay... so no JavaScript?

B: That means we are only going to send them HTML and nothing else. Here's a list of the images they have.

Me:......

Now I have to make about 80 pages of pure html with inline styles on each page.

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  • 18
    7y
    Sounds like a perfect candidate for Word's convert to HTML feature; it'll give you terrible markup and tons of redundant inline styles automatically!
  • 1
    7y
    You call this work 💩 damn son!
  • 2
    7y
    @spongessuck
    What Word has that feature!?
    I gotta take a look thanks!
  • 0
    7y
    @Teezha I think 2010 has it. I've never used it, but I have seen the product of it and it is ugly.
  • 1
    7y
    @enen
    I would but boss' specifications says no JS...
  • 4
    7y
    Run. Or be a strong dev and educate your boss on why that's a waste of his money.
  • 2
    7y
    Mate what happens if you guys end up supporting it long term though? 😲
  • 0
    7y
    What about a static site generator like Jekyll?
  • 2
    7y
    Sounds like 3 lines of code and a lot of search'nreplace.

    For simple text tooltips wrap the words in spans with a title attribute. For everything else I would write a style element on top and use hidden boxes in the text that appear on hover of the enclosing word.
  • 0
    7y
    Just give them one of those ugly tagcloud thingies 🤔
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