View the HTML Source of subway.com; it's a marvel of modern browser technology.

http://www.subway.com/subwayroot/index.aspx

by sebastian • 16 years ago

24 27 16 years ago

subway.com

thehigherlife• 16 years ago

it just told me (in a popup window) i don't have flash 8 or greater...

spooneybarger• 16 years ago

that might be part of the sarcasm in the post title.

eberfreitas• 16 years ago

Well, it works!

slpsys• 16 years ago

..ish!

pacomerh• 16 years ago

Wow it looks like a planet with no life. Code generated by an old html robot

eam• 16 years ago

SanjayUttam2• 16 years ago

http://shop.subway.com/substore/substore/tabid/38/entityname...

I guess when your url looks like that, it's not that much of a surprise to have that much view state.

(edit: Just noticed it looks like that is DNN)

abrudtkuhl4• 16 years ago

I'm pretty sure it's Sharepoint

SanjayUttam2• 16 years ago

From the URL above...

FR• 16 years ago

oh boy... 1) I started feeling bad way before hitting on the source... 2) the switch for Go To Country is brilliant!

abrudtkuhl4• 16 years ago

yeah the Go To Country Switch is a product of sheer brilliance

thomasknowles• 16 years ago

So many tables, 48 to be precise.

byoung2• 16 years ago

That's 10 times as many tables as the average Subway restaurant has!

fireismyflag• 16 years ago

I see... a self-post to brag about your coding skills

cparedes• 16 years ago

Ow, ow, those sharp edges of those tables!

teeohhem• 16 years ago

Five dollar... Five dollar... Five dollar foo....web designer!

bs0101• 16 years ago

5. 5 dollar. 5 dollar web-presence investment...

Groxx• 16 years ago

Any particular reason why Subway was chosen? There's got to be a billion other pages out there as bad or worse.

Personally, I like Sears.com. I looked more closely after I found and reported a security hole in one of their systems. It's far more terrifying than the relatively-tame code I saw on Subway's site.

hkuo• 16 years ago

From a user's perspective, the site loads quick and displays fine. Would there be any particular reason that would motivate the programmers of Subway.com to clean up their code or reformat it in a more efficient way?

abrudtkuhl4• 16 years ago

1) reusability 2) maintainability 3) self pride

muddylemon• 16 years ago

alt="Were Winners Eat!"

rwhitman• 16 years ago

The reason Subway doesn't invest much in its website is because its primarily a franchise sales tool. The consumer doesn't really factor in here much at the corporate level.

I did a bunch of bids for some other very large franchise company websites and they were almost universally reluctant to invest any amount of money in upgrading their website. To the corporate honchos they make their $$ selling franchises - they could care less about consumer utility. They aren't selling many sandwiches via the web so everything else on the website is just a grudging formality - menu, store locator, coupons etc

(That said, this site is a marvel of modern engineering. I especially like how line 2 dives right into a table tag. Screw <html> or <head>, give me MORE TABLES!!)

rograndom• 16 years ago

the opening html tag is there....

right on line 170

Also the closing html tag is on line 791, followed by 43 more lines including another table

jawee• 16 years ago

66 Errors, 17 warning(s)

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsubway.com%2F...

grackle• 16 years ago

ONMOUSEOVER loves you! It just wants to be your friend!

Also, I just noticed that buried deep within the body section is some juicy metadata about a Fiery Footlong Frenzy. I need to start slipping that into all the code I write. Maybe buried somewhere deep within a table. With some <strike> tags in between for good measure.

shelfu• 16 years ago

Obviously a little late to read this.. but the source now shows this:

Now the that big switch is gone, here are some fun facts: 1. This site was created in 2002, using Visual Studio 2003. 2. Yes there was some editing done in frontpage. The editors worked better than VS 2003, and we had a license for it. 3. A lot from the funky mark-up is from some early generation .NET thirdparty controls we've been maintaining. 4. We look forward to updating the site as much as you (probably more in fact!) Thanks for the QA, Redditors!

View the HTML Source of subway.com; it's a marvel of modern browser technology.

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