One of the guys who sort of works for me has spent all afternoon being massively stressed by his inability to get an HTML page to render properly... and of course I've been stressed by his being stressed (long story).
Actually its worse than that. The HTML is generated by an XML->XSL transform (all in .NET). And comes out nicely formatted with the tags on separate lines - if you remove all this spare whitespace (not just the cr/lfs)it renders as designed, leave it in an you get a mess.
But whitespace isn't supposed to count in markup... it certainly isn't supposed to be this significant and yet this has cost us hour
Now all we have to do is persuade the rendering sequence not to do the nice formatting. I have my other minion looking at that.
This has cost us hours, ruined my ability to concentrate all afternoon, is going to chew up yet more time 'til we work out how to anti-formatting and its something that probably shouldn't even be an issue in the first place!
Mote a helpful rant all round - but that's what we did today so that's what I've written.
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