I'm currently filled with equal parts of "curiosity" and "dread"..

About to go into a meeting arranged by Marketing to discuss the revamp of an old webapp. The terms "fresh new look" and "current day best practices" have been thrown around...

It's a Java 7 webapp deployed to Tomcat 7, with hard coded filesystem paths in JSP files.

Hmm.. maybe a little more "dread" than "curiosity", actually. 🤔

Can't believe Tomcat is still alive...

So new app ?

Great way to start the meeting :)

@Grumm pretty much hey.. perhaps not entirely though, but 90% of the UI needs to be redone.

Let's just say this app's "cascading style sheets" only cascade between the levels of styling that were bashed into submission with "!important".

My POA here is, quite literally, delete all stylesheets, run the app, and then see how much work is needed... 😅

Oh yeah, and it also makes use of fixed size tables for layout, so those need to be burnt with fire. Lots and lots of fire.

Good luck! I am very (very) good at keeping frontend at good poking distance. Hopefully, I will NEVER touch it again. Automation FTW!

@ZaLiTHkA And now, here I am realizing I am making it hard for my follower...

Making multiple website (most just internal stuff) in all kind of different frameworks.

Have fun and good luck xD