Thursday, June 23

Blogger's killing me II

Blogger is really pissing me off right now. You're probably wondering why this blog looks so fucked up. You can read the following message I sent to Blogger about this.

Monday, I published an entry, and it was fine. Tonight I publish an entry, and I find that Blogger has decided to put a <div style="clear:both;"></div> into my new entry. Why? Why is Blogger insisting on putting code that is not in my template, nor is it even shown when I edit the entry? From the formatting, it appears that this is new code that starts the <$BlogItemBody$>. There is absolutely no fucking (excuse my French, but I'm pissed at this point!) reason why Blogger should be inserting ANY FUCKING code into any blog! Period!

This little "experiment" or whatever the hell you want to call it breaks my blog, as I'm sure it's breaking lots of others. Does anybody actually consider what kinds of consequences code changes will have? What kind of problem was happening that this code needed to be added, IN BLOGGER, without just changing the goddamn template instead?

Since my current host doesn't offer MySQL or MSSQL or anything at all like that, I guess I'm going to have to switch to somebody else and get WordPress going. I'm not even remotely happy at this point. Blogger has gone down shit lane as far as I can tell. Hopefully my little message will kick somebody's butt into gear and get it fixed (although my linkblog is still screwed over, but I might be able to salvage it (still)), as I've got a lot more work ahead to get my own WAMP system working. I've found a printed copy of my url2mail.c program that I think I can get modified enough to work with the Blogger email gateway (by enclosing what I'm sending as a mime enclosure, not just sent as text).

How many blogs tonight are screwed over by this absolutely stupid move on Blogger's part?

Update: It's worse than that I'm finding. They've put in a <div style="clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;"></div> at the end of the post, that I didn't catch before. Insert scream here!