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Re: HTML Editor with spell check?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Wed Nov 25 14:01:32 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 19:02:47 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <199811251824.NAA01842@saltmine.radix.net>; from David Hartley on Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 01:24:22PM -0500
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David Hartley writes:
> The new O'Reilly book that covers Vi and Vi clones talks about some options.
> Elvis has an html mode that looks interesting. On freshmeat.net yesterday was a link to Xedit which has an html feature.
> So far my favorites are Netscape, Amaya, and AsWedit for html editing.
Amaya is a good choice, if you're doing HTML 4.0, IMO. I haven't done that
much with it, but the code it generates seems to be reasonably ok and
according to standard.
Netscape, however, produces code that has absolutely nothing to do with HTML
standards and breaks about every possible rule. There's no guarantee that
HTML generated by Netscape will be displayed properly in anything but
Netscape, so if your aim is to produce portable pages (and IMO that is the
whole point about designing web pages!), I'd recommend against Netscape.
Typical problems with Netscape code are:
- Obsolete tags
- the use of headings (<h1>-<h6>) to get bigger fonts
- obsolete <center> tags (e.g. <center><h1>xxxx</h1></center> - absolute
nonsense, as <h1> has an align attribute)
- obsolete tables for layout
- interleaving of tags (e.g. <b><i>asdasdas</b></i>, correct would be
<b><i>asdadas</i></b>)
and a few other nasty things.
I always find it quite amusing when I encounter a page that boasts to be
designed by "professionals" and then has the Netscape Generator tag in
the source... :-) Yeah, right...
Thomas
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