On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Timothy R.Butler wrote:
FrontPage makes pretty bad HTML too; though of course not as bad as MS Word. Not only that, sometimes other browsers besides MSIE don't parse it right. Really coding by hand with a good HTML editor is still the best way to go, though for Linux one can use several WYSYWIG editors such as Amaya or Mozilla/Netscape Composer if one is so inclined.
Well at the cost of sounding like those long time UNIX'ers who think you should draw an image by typing in binary ;-), I would tend to agree - coding by hand is the *only* way to go if you want a decent site. Infact, I've even penned a number of columns on why one shouldn't use a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
For development of a Web site, I agree with you; in fact, my Web site (below) is mostly coded by hand (in KWrite, which displays the various HTML features nicely in different colors), even though the pages say they were produced either by Mozilla or by StarOffice (I used those applications to get a basic page in the beginning, then tweaked those pages to my satisfaction and copied them). However, as I'll repeat ad nauseam, producing long documents in HTML format for reference purposes is a different matter: there, you definitely want a tool that will automate as much of the process as possible. Regards, Tim Sunrise in Stockholm today: 7:40 Sunset in Stockholm today: 15:23 My rail transit photos at http://www.kynerd.nu