Re: HTML editor: does everyone need to be on the same page?

[Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com>]

John Posada wrote:
 
> > Secondly, I think the attitude that everyone on the writing team
> > should be using the same tool to produce code with is dangerous;
> > proprietary WYSIWYG editors almost always impose idiosyncratic
> > code that can render your finished product accessible only to
> > a specialized audience. If that
 
> Sorry, but this argument is getting old and it is doodoo....
> propagated in most part by those who have spent their whole career
> learning how to code in Note Pad and are upset that others are coming
> along and with clicking button and dragging borders, are creating web
> page that are just as attractive and functional.
> 
> I'll create a perfectly usable and feature-rich web page in FP
> (although I can do it in NP too, though in 1/4 the time) and I
> challenge you to not be able to use all the functionality on that
> page by any mainstream or even nearly mainstream browser that can
> read standard 3.2 or 4.0 html code.
 
> You may not like some of the underlying code or how the code for the
> page is arranged, but only a very small portion (single digit
> percentage) of people viewing web page even know about View -> Source
> and even less care.
 
> Besides...for the most part, each version of FP has been intruding on
> existing code less and less, with FP2002 doing almost none at all.

Products such as Front Page and Publisher certainly do a fine job, for
what they are. They clearly make it easy for those without a lot of
technical coding experience to produce a web page or DTP document. They
also make it easy to produce a quick and dirty prototype, that might be
used as a final. I also know folks who can spot a Front Page site simply
by it's look and speed, or lack thereof, of loading. I agree with your
comment about the "Notepad HTML coder." The Notepad coder is as much of
a production guy as a punch card programmer. However, I think that we
agree that other products such as Dreamweaver have a legitimate user
base. I also think that there products such as Dreamweaver and Hot Metal
that put out more efficient code and allow for greater artistic license. 

-- 
Peter
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