Definitions
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- noun web design, usually derogatory The practice of
authoring web-page code with manydiv elements in place of meaningfulsemantic HTML elements.
Etymologies
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Examples
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5 - Proliferation of nodes in DOM tree: it takes time, cpu, RAM to process a webpage filled with dozens of, spacer. gif of various sizes (width and height), with typical "divitis" design, with typical
IEBlog 2009
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Looking up the word dives, divitis 'rich' often contracted to dis, ditis in the Oxford Latin Dictionary, I found the etymology Pelignian des, deti, cogn. w.
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Central Asia -- "Thesauri Arabum et divitis Indiæ" -- to the knowledge of
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911
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It's as pointless as and in my opinion serves to further propagate classitis and iditis, both diseases related to the more famous divitis.
Planet Microformats 2010
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So it's either living with that (which can be an option) or back to writing markup suffering from divitis and spanitis and letting your users download loads of images.
456 Berea Street 2010
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The examples below should inspire developers to dig deeper into the subject of clean code and ways to avoid divitis.
doggdot.us 2009
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By marking up the document first, you won't run into such diseases as divitis and classitis, which can sometimes be fatal!
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div is alternative to table. huh? this sounds like the road to divitis. separation of structure from layout/presentation. divs as the skeleton.
best of track: conversion to web standards - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson 2004
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Might have sent me on the same errand by daylight, mightn’t he? opulento homini hoc servitus dura est, hoc magis miser est divitis servos noctesque diesque assiduo satis superque est, quod facto aut dicto adeost opus, quietus ne sis.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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[Footnote 1: "... intactis opulentior Thesauris Arabum, et divitis
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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