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Yes...sometimes, just for fun, I'll open and
save an HTML file - that I've hand-coded - in a WYSIWYG editor (and yes,
Front Page IS the worst) just to see what kind of a mess it will make
in its effort to "fix" my formatting. The result never fails to baffle me with
its overkill of tagging and convoluted formatting. It's just plain
sad.
XyWrite is particularly useful for cleaning
up WYSIWYG produced code.
Being
an HTML dilettante though, I have found a use for the least obnoxious
editor I've seen (NVU - open source). When I can't figure out how to do
something a little beyond my experience I let the app figure it out
for me. I still have to "clean up" the code of course.
-BH
I taught myself to hand-code
XHTML and CSS, for which XyWrite often is a handy editor. You should see the
cumbersome code created by ANY Microsoft program that touts itself as an HTML
editor ... and especially Front Page. I have to conclude that this is
deliberate, aimed at preventing other browsers from properly interpreting the
proprietary code, and it slows the end user's experience while MS loads all its
little widgets. And all those mind-numb robots called Microsoft Certified
Engineers discourage the use of any other software, assuring that we'll stay in
the Dark Ages of the Internet for some time to come.
So I guess what I'm
saying is that I'm as much fun as Brian at parties.
(Jeff...I'll party with you,
anytime)