JSF + HTML - a sudden divorce

Now here's a neat one: try mixing HTML and JSF markup in one place. It's all nice and dandy unless there's no html->jsf->html->jsf nesting. In that case the JSF tags are omitted! Here's an explanation why that was the case in JSF 1.1 and that it's supposedly fixed in 1.2 but I've tried it out and it's still not working.

FYI: that works just fine on multiple level of nesting in ASP.NET!

Trinidad nonsense

Today I've spent almost 6 hours trying to find out the CSS responsible for introducing an 8 pixel top margin for body. The case is even stranger in that the mysterious margin appears only in Internet Explorer. Imagine the 8px disruption in absolute positioning of the elements on the page - it just looks bad.

Finally I've found the problem: Trinidad introduces some stylesheets that do exactly that.

Well it wouldn't be much of an issue if it were not for the fact that this damn CSS is included as the last thing in the head!!! So you can do anything you like - body will always have this damn 8 pixels margin in IE only no matter what.

I'd like to find out who the butthead that invented this piece of sh** is. I mean, come on!!! Someone must have been stoned to do this kind of thing!

The worst thing is I have not damn idea how to fix it other than using some sort of on-load method to correct the CSS for body element. jQuery works well, but this is the ugliest hack I've ever come across.