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RE: HTML editor: does everyone need to be on the same page?
Subject:RE: HTML editor: does everyone need to be on the same page? From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:53:26 -0700 (PDT)
> > > 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...
>
> I agree with John. Early WYSIWYG editors could be frustrating
> because you couldn't do everything in them and they would mess
> up hand-coded pages, but this is no longer true in general. I
> find the time savings are immense.
I'm not disputing that hand coding, in the hands of an expert, can
produce quality stuff (although I'd venture that some of the output
from experts isn't to the same level in the reader's eyes as it is in
its author's eyes).
In the same vein, handcoding TROFF markup produced beautiful
documents, calligraphy pens on linen produced beautiful drafting
drawing, and quills in the hands of Monks produced beautiful
illuminated manuscripts.
All of them had their place and ll of them passed into history as
just not being practical and as well should notepad for creating a
web page.
=====
John Posada, Senior Technical Writer
"I am a bomb disposal expert. If you see me running, try to keep up." mailto:john -at- tdandw -dot- com, 732-259-2874
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