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Quiz Answers Amuse Me

Grading quizzes is always fun. Last semester, I got my favorite answer yet from a student who remarked that:

"Standards-based web design uses XHTML and CSS to separate the men from the boys."

(The answer I was looking for, of course, was presentation from content.)

As I finished up some grading for midterms, I got a far funnier answer than that one. You will need to know something about web design to understand this one.

The question was "What is divitis?"

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<div id="title"><h1>THIS IS DIVITIS</h1></div>
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It's where people use waaay to many unnecessary div's to basically fake the "power" they had with tables.
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I won't post the author's identity, but I'm guessing he or she will comment and claim this massive, epic win.

Smart-assery, FTW!