>On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:32 AM, Nicholas Nethercote <n.netherc...@gmail.com >> wrote: > >> I was wondering what people think is the worst piece of code in the >> entire Mozilla codebase. I'll leave the exact meanings of "worst" and >> "piece of code" unspecified... >> > >Probably not the worst, but always deserves a mention: >http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/xul/nsSprocketLayout.cpp#632 > > // That's it! If you made it this far without having a nervous > // breakdown, congratulations! Go get yourself a beer. > >... which ties into the XUL thread :-)
Reminds me of the total rewrite I did of the table-layout code for SpyGlass eons ago, to actually work correctly (I think I even had it handle bug 10212 correct - height 100% when nesting tables). Quite brain-warping, especially how changes can ripple through multiple times. -- Randell Jesup, Mozilla Corp remove "news" for personal email _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
