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RE: corporate serial killers



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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
 
-----Original Message-----  From:  Jeff (  mailto:peregrine@xxxxxxxxperegrine@xxxxxxxx ) 
 
 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)