Re: hand-coding vrs WYSWYG

Hey, Finally someone who can use Telnet!  I love it too. Telnet is an
awesome program to use. But unfortunately too many have been lead to believe
it is Unix, and oops, that is a bad word!
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Starkey" <jstarkey(at)advancecreations.com>
To: "Dandello" <librarian(at)shadolibrary.org>
Cc: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: hand-coding vrs WYSWYG


| > > Eeeewwwwww!  Ok, hands up if you love hand coding HTML above all else?
:)
|
| Ehh. Does it count if I code most of my stuff using vi over telnet? :} One
| good thing I've found about WYSISYG (and hand coding) is, when viewing my
| page, and I get stuck on table layout problems I can do a quick "view
| source", copy that, and paste it in homesite, then do a code sweep and
| view it a little easier.
|
| Also referring to the vi telnet thing. It only takes a second to open a
| remote editor and change a line or two. Immediately it's available. No
| waiting for apps to open up (vi could be measured in microseconds with a
| medium size doc.) No authenticating (in my case I always have a secure
| connection open). And if there's still a small error I won't have to
| upload yet again.
|
| > > But I will still contend spending time learning *some* HTML coding
will go a
| > > long way down the track.  I guess my bias comes from standing in a
store
| > > checkout line with one item on a twofer or 50 percent off sale (I only
want
| > > one!).  The checkout chick (Aussie slang, still getting over it,
sorry)
| > > cannot fathom buying one on a twofer sale.  The calculator and the
cash
| > > register don't have a button for it.  Often a polite query reveals no
| > > knowledge of paper/pencil math; only calculator math.  Now if this
person
| > > had learned basic math from the ground up, one only needs to enter the
price
| > > and calculate fifty percent off that price.  :)
|
| Great analogy.
|
|

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