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> The initial premise of this page was to teach myself HTML and, as
> such, it was interesting but (I hope) ultimately pointless: tag
> markup has had its day. It surely can not be long before someone
> produces a WYSIWYG web editor. The tools should not constrain the
> craftsman [said with humility].
Do you really think they'll come up with a viable alternative? What with
the multitude of platforms that access the web (PC, Mac, and Unix, along
with many others), I don't know if there *is* an alternative to tagging,
which relies on the cross-platform ASCII and SGML formats.... Any
opinions on this one?