October 29th, 2006
Code is Poetry (1 Update)
Recently chucker mentioned in his “Remix” post about the tagline in wordpress, which states “Code is Poetry” and ventures the possibility of Code being Art.
This leads me to wonder if Code is Poetry what does that make the Kubrick style sheet? A Haiku perhaps?
I was wondering if I was the only one frustraited by the messy CSS code of Wordpress’ default theme, but as it turns out I wasn’t.
So I decided to do something about it, I went through and removed all the conflicting values (duplicate values) and added a few more to make customisation easier (some people know how to change values but not write new ones). I wrote this sheet in a structured way that I find works for me, not sure if others will find it usable as I can never tell if my CSS decent enough for people really. So here it is;
- Kubrick Style Clean (.txt format)
As chucker points out, Kubrick is third party and so doesn’t really fall under wordpress’ “Code is Poetry” line, this of course would depend on whether the line itself refers to just wordpress code or code in general.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
Agreed, the Kubrick CSS is messy, but while WordPress ships with it as a default theme, it should be noted, in all fairness, that Kubrick is done by a third party, not by WordPress’s developers.
So, WordPress’s “code is poetry” slogan probably is only meant to apply to WordPress itself. Though, even then, I wouldn’t necessarily agree. Their PHP code is honestly not that great. (Then again, perhaps I have just developed an aversion against PHP in general; I just don’t find it to be suitable for creating “truly” object-oriented apps.)
Ramble-dee-damble.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Yes that is true, should have taken that into account. I don’t mind PHP seems useful for a lot of things but I haven’t really delved into that side of the web much.