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Re: wysiwyg html editor



* Gerald V. Livingston II (debuser@sysmatrix.net) [021011 20:31]:
> WYSIWYG HTML editors all seem to have one flaw that most consider
> fatal. The size of the code generated is usually about 3 to 5 times
> larger than what is actually needed to create the same page by hand.
> This is a big drawback when trying to create neat, fast-loading pages.

I think also that a fundamental point worth making is that HTML is not,
and can not be, WYSIWYG.  It's a text markup language, and will be
rendered differently by different user agents.  For example, most HTML
produced in things like frontpage is unusable to text-only or audio-only
(screen-reading) clients, as the data gets all scrambled out of order in
an attempt to get a "pretty" layout.

Write clean, logical markup in a good text editor, and you will get a
clean, logical web site.

good times,
Vineet
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