Comments on: Sharepoint 2007 – insanely bad HTML

By: jenn suz hoy

jenn suz hoy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:22:15 +0000

This will haunt me in my sleep…

Though it did provide a humorous distraction to my day :)

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:44:26 +0000

Developing “custom” code for MOSS is a painful experience too. There’s no way to use the SharePoint.dll remotely, all interaction development that requires it’s use means that you have to have Visual Studio installed on that server to even begin to think about it.

Also if you don’t want to go that route… they have web services… unfortunately those have a fairly steep learning curve when you have to use CAML to create/update/delete lists. Consider the following as well: for a system that seems to want to be the a central document storage system for team collaboration… they might want to have a web service that would allow for programmatically doing bulk file uploads to a document library… but they don’t.

By: Georges Jentgen

Georges Jentgen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:39:25 +0000

I sure agree that the code in WSS and MOSS is terrible, if not [ insert your WORST NIGHTMARE]. But I still believe that the idea behind all this is great!

We are going to use Sharepoint really soon as it integrates nicely into our new AD/Exchange-Network. I just got a decent helpdesk up and running in a bout 30minutes. The technology is good, the implementation (code) is bad. That’s M$ technology. We have to live with it [DAMN]…

What really annoys me about this, is the fact that they just released MOSS 2007 a couple months ago…

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:45:52 +0000

@sikanrong: I’m not sure what you mean but I think this is bigger than a Microsoft vs. Open source argument (anything Microsoft did vs. Rails). Microsoft do good things and bad things, this is the worst thing they have ever produced!

In other words, I agree :)

By: sikanrong

sikanrong — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:20:48 +0000

Dude, you just got EVERY web developer that stumbles this page to go “OH SHIT, what if my site’s next??” – but after reading it i can tell that this is way worse than anything you could find in my app. Anyway shitty tools output shitty code – this would never have happened in Rails.

By: Twan van Elk » Blog Archive » Linklog

Twan van Elk » Blog Archive » Linklog — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:53:16 +0000

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By: Reto

Reto — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:06:00 +0000

Thanks for the entertainment. :-) You had me chuckle.

By: Janec

Janec — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:02:29 +0000

I sure would like to see an official m$ response on this.

tip of the day; “don’t buy moss” (or any other m$ product)

By: Edward

Edward — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:23:47 +0000

Well our company bought sharepoint, we get to deal with this and hundreds more frustrations every day.
If you think the HTML is bad, wait until you actually work with the rest of it…

By: Ruhh

Ruhh — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:57:37 +0000

Absolutely unbelievable!?! I couldn’t even read this whole post. I can’t even see the humour in it because it is just so bad.

I can’t even comprehend how this corporation succeeds. I’d be interested in hearing their defense and justification for such sloppy workmanship. SHAMEFUL!

By: Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:18:08 +0000

Omg, that is absolutely horrible. Why would any sane person choose to use Sharepoint?

By: joe

joe — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:19:42 +0000

Reminds me of the html that frontage would spew out. A page with one word would be 6k…

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:20:11 +0000

Now I’m really looking forward to the upcoming Sharepoint project that I have in the pipeline, NOT!

By: Leon

Leon — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:22:22 +0000

Dear god

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:59:13 +0000

@Kalle and Devon: Thanks, I was hoping that code would be of use as comedy, it isn’t useful as anything else. :)