My day has been made.

For every 10 Eric S. Raymond rants, there's 1 good piece of writing. Or something like that. Here's what ESR has to say about HTML hell. There are a few types of hell and I'd like to point out two of my favourites.

From Design Hell, we have...

unreadable text/background combinations
    The world is full of clowns who think their text pages look better in clown makeup, clashing colors galore (your typical garish-background idiot also pulls this one a lot). The magic words these losers need to learn are "luminance contrast". Your color sense is between you and the Gods of Bad Taste, but if you don't stick to either light text on dark backgrounds or the reverse, you will drive away surfers who like to be able to read without suffering eye-burn.

And Style Hell...(The first two from that section are best, but I'll only paste one here.)

angst and pretentiousness
    We were originally going to vent our spleen at black backgrounds, until we realized that black is not the problem. It's the three overlapping populations of losers that compose 99% of the black backgrounds on the Web that are the problem. These are (a) cooler-than-thou art fags, (b) angst-ridden adolescents, and (c) the kind of coffeehouse trendoids who actually believe subscribing to Wired makes them hip. Clue: angst and pretentiousness are boring. People who spew bad poetry and/or make a fetish of writing in all-smalls and/or traffic in fuzzy images of mediocre avant-garde art should slit their wrists or join a commune or do anything else that will keep their self-indulgent sludge off the Web.

Congrats to ESR for writing something that has made my day. He basically finishes by saying content is king. Just like the 9rules blog network..."If content is King, think of us as the Royal family".