destructive bitching in the early morning

Pitty the story below (the wide one) doesn't allow comments; I wanted to post one: Using tables for layouting is the shit, huh? Especially if you have no line-breaking algorithm whatsoever.

By the way, who else hates the new story editor? I'm under the impression it got even worse since I saw the prototype. Why are 'subscribers' between 'author' and 'contributors'? What's the headline 'Publish in topics' good for? Why can't I see now that 'Publish in topics only' means that it won't be in the weblog/calender/frontpage? (In the old editor, that was obvious, but now a new user has to solve a riddle to find out what this option does.) And if you follow the human interfdace design guidelines from Apple, who make reasonably nice GUIs, the faux-3D border around the options with the lable 'Options' also does more harm than good. There's too much clutter, too little thoughtful design. Yuck.

Compare that to the story editor of MovebleType (looks huge because of two additional text areas; imagine it without them). Links to on-line-help anywhere! Almost minumum clutter!