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by kilburn 2139 days ago
> I'm going to be a grumpy old man ...

Ironically, the site is made using tables for layout! Like, the really old technique where the left and right margins of the content are actually td's with a bunch of &nbsp's inside.

I'm really surprised that someone would make a site this way nowadays. It is a lot more work than necessary and the end results are not great (as you can see here).

PS: Running this in your console will get to a mostly workable state (not great, but better):

[...document.querySelectorAll('*')].map(e => {e.style.width = 'auto';})

Edit: I did my good deed of the day by opening a PR that modernizes the site's markup and CSS, fixing the issues too:

https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/pull/70

2 comments

Thank you for that contribution!

Updated site is now live (along with big documentation update and link to sandbox tio.run).

Maybe that's why it loaded so fast it was done before I could switch to the tab.