Re: OOo Writer and FrontPage

[Lou Quillio <public -at- quillio -dot- com>]

I must report that the FrontPage 4.0 markup I've been sent is 
nothing like the garbage FrontPage 2000 used to generate.

It used to be that WYSIWYG HTML editors all generated awful markup, 
with FrontPage's about three times as awful as the pack.  FrontPage 
seems to have caught-up by cleaning up.  It's still a limited tool, 
but limited in the ways that WYSIWYG editors probably must be.  An 
experienced XHTML/CSS hand will lose both control and speed, but I 
suppose inexperienced folks might find WYSIWYG editors useful -- for 
awhile.  XHTML really is quite simple.  For static pages such as 
FrontPage generates, a text editor and a web browser form a complete 
IDE.

Nvu (www.nvu.com) is worth a look if you crave WYSIWYG.  Essentially 
it's the next-generation Mozilla Composer.  If you're gonna use 
these tools, might as well use a free, standards-compliant one, and 
take another step away from MS Office.  Microsoft doesn't own XHTML, 
so if FrontPage's markup is clean there's no way to claim an 
'integration' benefit.  Nvu's available for Windows, Linux and OS X.

LQ

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