Fujinon Binoculars Demonstrate Generated HTML Gone Crazy

Take a look at the source code the the Fujinon Binoculars site. Oh dear. At one point I count 250 lines that all say the same thing:

<FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">

One can only hope this was generated by a loser CMS. Still it make for pretty source pictures. The picture above was generated by saving the source, loading into BBEdit, saving as styled HTML (that is a new web page just showing the source - kind of a source in source loop), taking a screenshot of the resulting HTML with LittleSnapper and re-sizing the result. Click on the image to see the whole thing.

Of course, even one of these statements is more than enough since browsers can and do override font sizes specified in source. For example, here’s what they expect part of the page to look like:

But in my browser, in which I have a minimum font size specified, I see this:

Time to get new web developers.