RE: No Frontpage! (was: "Re: your mail")

I believe that we are not allowed to bash a certain program over the email list.
Nicholas Coday

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org]On
>Behalf Of Mike Taylor
>Sent: Friday, January 29, 1999 01:35 PM
>To: Tom Price
>Cc: hwg-graphics(at)mail.hwg.org
>Subject: No Frontpage! (was: "Re: your mail")
>
>
>Ugh!  No Frontpage!  It adds tabs to your HTML which translate into extra
>characters which means a bigger HTML file!  
>
>Try Allaire's Homesite 4.0 instead. :)
>
>Mike Taylor
>lonewolf(at)one.net
>http://w3.one.net/~lonewolf/
>
>
>On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Tom Price wrote:
>
>> Working with other Web professionals, here is our take on the .htm vs 
>> .html issue.
>> 
>> Frontpage defaults to .htm
>> 
>> Believe it or not, there are still "professional" Web designers that 
>> still completely hand code their Web Sites.  They seem to feel any 
>> modern program (Frontpage, etc.) that assists in the monotonous tasks of 
>> page design are "crutches" for less skilled morons.
>> 
>> The challenge I always offer these type of individuals is, O.K., you 
>> bring up Notepad and we will bring up Frontpage.  Now let's create an 
>> 8x8 table, set the attributes of table to center, 0 border, 0 spacing, 0 
>> padding, and set all the cells to justify top, center.
>> 
>> Go. . .  10 seconds later . . . 
>> 
>> We are done.  Oh, sorry, you are still on <table . . >
>> 
>> What we are trying to tell is that .htm or .html is fine.  Either works 
>> great and it's simply a personal choice.
>> 
>> You have to understand the people that will argue this are usually very 
>> opinionated not only on this issue but others as well.
>> 
>> We find these people usually have the following attributes:
>> 
>> They HATE! Microsoft and anyone or thing associated with it.
>> They usually do not like PC's.  They prefer Mac's.
>> They will argue about anything.
>> They LOVE Unix, Perl, ect.  Basically any fringe computer technology 
>> that a normal human would not have a clue, or for that matter, care 
>> about.
>> 
>> So go ahead and use the .htm extension.  Also feel free to look at using 
>> one of the excellent page design programs such as Frontpage.  Your page 
>> will look and function better because you will be able to focus on the 
>> visual design and functionality rather that the <xxx> tags.  And, you 
>> can always tweak the code via the HTML tab, if need be.
>> 
>> T
>> 
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