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Re: How will Netscape/AOL Merger Affect Us?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Nov 25 13:18:48 1998

Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:49:04 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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"Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG)" wrote:

> Gordon Messmer writes:
> [...]
> > So Netscape is, and Word will be (isn't that the MS way??) HTML
> > editors.  Graphics capable, WYSIWYG editors with a spell checker.
> > What else constitues a word processor?
>
> a) there is no such thing as WYSIWYG with HTML. Common misconception.
> b) Netscape is not a HTML editor - it's a program that is able to output
>    some ASCII code that vaguely resembles the page layout language that is
>    called HTML - but it is *not* valid HTML in most cases.

Actually there is an HTML editor in Netscape.  It's called composer.
I bet it does output valid HTML.
Whose definition if 'valid HTML' are you using?

In Netscape when you write an email message and use the option
"use HTML editor to create mail messages" it also creates HTML.

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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com   Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2




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