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That would actually make some twisted kind of sense, I guess. These guys are using an HTML generator that produces things like this:

.g { MARGIN: 72pt 90pt; size: 595.3pt 841.9pt }

P.a { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt }

TABLE.t { BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; MARGIN-LEFT: -5.4pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse }

... oodles of it.

+1. Most of them have a rather hazy idea of what they are doing and are stuck in the last century technology-wise. Example: at least one wire releases time-critical information in HTML with multimegabyte (yes, megabyte) stylesheets which are delivered inline. And they won't change the format.

"Some guy" in this case is Steve Yegge. The document in question is http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/five-essential-phone-scre... It is not a list of questions, it is a list of topics to cover in an interview. Having done over 300 interviews over the last two years, for all levels of experience, I have to say I mostly agree with Steve. His observations at the end are spot on.

'Forever Peace'?