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Once upon a time in Developer Land, a developer was instructed to build a page that will show the great achievements of the ancients. He diligently started to create a model and used all that he could think of in order to make it good and make its employers proud. He added text and used nice fonts and alignment tags. He used lists to enumerate battles and deeds, and images to depict the stories.

The developer was good in his work and always printed his masterpieces at InternetExplorer’s shop because they were good friends and got to know each other well. And so his latest work got printed there also and it was looking marvelous.

Unfortunately this developer never got to read all 100 Commandments passed down to developers and stopped just short of 57 where it said:

“All tags should be finished by /> or </ …>”

But his friend, the apprentice from InternetExplorer shop knew him well, and if he found a tag not looking like it should he tried to make the best out of it and it was always good.

One day the employers hired a new developer and he was good also, but this one had read the commandments and even though he did not remember them all he had a tool that checked those rules and saw that in his colleague work an <img> tag was missing the end tag and he added it. When printing it at InternetExplorer shop it was looking fine. But there was you see something wrong, as this infamous tag was looking at first like this:

<img id=”imgAchievement” >

but after the second developer with his tool had modified it, it looked like this:

<img id=”imgAchievement” alt=”" />

Now the apprentice at InternetExplorer shop saw this but did not know where is the image that he should put in place and he said to himself that the developer erred and he went about his work and everything was good.

But one day a client said “I don’t like the guys at InternetExplorer shop and I want to use FireFox shop to print” and so he did, but there the apprentice of FireFox was a genius and knew all commandments and when looking at the <img> tag, he saw it was not saying where the image was and so he went about and did what he knew was right and showed there a picture of the whole artwork. But this was not good for the customer and so they tried to fix it but the developer could not speak with the apprentice from FireFox shop because they spoke different languages and only knew what the client said and so they struggled for what seemed to be an eternity.

Then the original developer remembered that a long time ago another client used to print this work at FireFox shop and that there was no problem and so he said “Why don’t we give this customer what I gave the customer from a long time ago ?”. And this was good ’cause the print was fine and wonderful and this because of one tiny thing. The old print had the old <img> tag which the apprentice from FireFox shop saw it was wrong and incomplete and ignored the troublemaker.

But our story does not end here because the new developer was a perfectionist and his proofing tool never failed and when he saw that the model was wrong again he modified it unaware of the troubles it would bring. A while later another client went and used the FireFox shop and the problems were there again. But this one was determined to find out why, and so he took the long journey to the city where FireFox Inc. had shop and through endless discussions and sign languages he found what the problem was, and then he was struck. He did not need that <img> tag, it was not doing anything but trouble and so he removed it and that model was still printed for years to come even on the shop of Safari Inc.

Conclusion

You see young developers we all must abide by the commandments, because by them work also the print apprentices ,and while some learn our habbits and move and make shop in other countries calling themselves FireFox 2 or FireFox 3.0.3 or Internet Explorer 6.1 or 7.0 they all know the commandments. And if we make the model by those commandments we can be sure the prints are as we envision them.

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