Re: Here's a question...

by "Jim Henry" <ccsu0713(at)earthlink.net>

Date:	Tue, 17 Feb 1998 17:01:48 -0500
To:	"HWG HTML theory mailing list" <hwg-theory(at)hwg.org>
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Jim Henry III
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http://www.pobox.com/~Jim.Henry
Book reviews, L-systems, and so forth

-----Original Message-----
From: Reno <jdresel(at)direct.ca>
>Actually, I use Arachnophilia, a Careware text-based HTML editor, and I
>write all my pages by hand.  I prefer text-based editors and plain Notepad
>to wysiwyg editors like Frontpage Express/ 98.  And yourself?

Personally I prefer editing with a text editor (I usually use QEdit, a
DOS-based editor), and I use that for my personal home page and family home
page.  However, I have to use FrontPage 98 at work, as the way our server is
set up I can't access the pages without logging in through FrontPage.  Also,
my supervisor likes to be able to edit the pages occasionally.

FrontPage is easy to use, but it has annoying limitations.  In particular,
if I switch to HTML-mode and put in a DOCTYPE declaration at the beginning
(usually the W3C 4.0 Transitional doctype), FrontPage replaces this, when
saving, with:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">

i.e., loses the version number, etc.

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