Re: Front Page Fussy

[Scott Miller <smiller -at- PORTAL -dot- COM>]

Front page is a great tool for some things, but not for others. Like most
WYSIWYG HTML editors it changes your code, for example:

Before FrontPage:

<LI>
Text
<P>
<LI>
Text
<P>

After FrontPage:

<li>
Text
</li>
<li>
Text
</li>

This example is something I tripped over because I needed the "Before
FrontPage" formatting to get readable line spacing in the Ice browser.
FrontPage simply would not let me do it. Note that the formatting that
FrontPage used in this case is perfectly legal, perhaps overly-legal, but it
wasn't what I needed.

In addition, FrontPage will let you use HTML tags that are not standard HTML
(as defined by the W3C), and not FrontPage Extensions, but are tags that
work only in Internet Explorer. Can't think of any off the top of my head,
but I ran into some. Page borders come to mind. Anyway, I use FrontPage for
my internal site, because it's fast and I don't care that much about
appearance. For stuff that's read by customers, I use HomeSite. I was using
RoboHTML, but ran into similar HTML-only-for-IE problems.

- Scott M
smiller -at- portal -dot- com
--------------------------------------------
> Front Page absolutely uses standard HTML tags.  The ONLY derivation
> from "standard HTML", whatever the hell that is, is the FrontPage
> extensions.  If you don't use the FP Extensions, then the HTML
> generated is just as "pure" as anything out of HomeBlow or any of the
> other HTML generators.
>


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