Re: HTML Editor

[Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 00:41, Daniel D Jones wrote:

> I certainly do appreciate the usefulness of hand-coding HTML.  But I'm
> not gifted with great artistic skills.  I sometimes have a hard time
> visualizing exactly what the page will look like from the source.  And
> tweaking the source, save the file, switch to the browser, refresh the
> page, nope - that's not quite right, switch back to the editor, etc.
> gets old relatively quickly.  I'm not looking for anything to hold my
> hand, and I certainly don't want something like FP that twists my arm
> behind my back and tries to force me to go the way it thinks I should
> go.  But it'd be nice to, say, look at the rendered page and be able to
> drag the lines in a table to exactly where I want them to be.  So far, I
> haven't found anything.

No such tool ought to exist!

HTML that is written to achieve a particular appearance is a plague
created by Microsoft and the like.  You only have to look at the
appalling mess dumped by MS Word to see that its designers should have
been strangled at birth.

The whole point about good HTML is that it should display on a wide
range of browsers and allow the user to control the appearance of his
browser.  Your carefully crafted page is going to look totally horrible
when I display it in Galeon with your fonts and colours disabled.  Your
carefully sized and placed table is going to cause me extreme annoyance
when it doesn't fit in the page size I want.



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