Re: New Topic WYSIWYG
by Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg(at)idyllmtn.com>
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Sat, 05 Dec 1998 16:52:31 -0800 |
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Virginia Blalock <skatefan(at)visions.simplenet.com> |
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hwg-theory(at)hwg.org |
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At 06:05 p.m. 12/05/98 -0600, Virginia Blalock wrote:
>And no, this is not a "bash WYSIWYG" thing.
Yet. :)
>I have always wondered why the programmers of these editors make the
>editors come out with crappy code. I would imagine that they know that some
>of the code the editor generates is non HTML compliant.
You could likewise ask "why do most web designers make non-
compliant pages?" The truth is that by being part of the HTML
Writers Guild and other similarly focused groups, you are not a
normal web author -- you are exposed to concepts such as "valid
HTML" that most web creators rarely hear of.
>I would think that WYSIWYG editors would be more useful if they did the job
>they do and generate conpliant code.
Many of them were written at a time in which validity was not an
issue, and when "Does it work on Netscape or Microsoft?" was a
larger factor than "Does it validate?".
That said, many of them _are_ becoming better at creating valid
HTML; Hot Metal Pro 4.0 (and higher), for example, are very good
at producing valid HTML.
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Chief Technologist & Co-Owner, Idyll Mountain Internet; Fullerton, California
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