[WEB4LIB] Re: Column on HTML Editors

[James Cayz]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Blake Carver wrote:
>Am I the only one who still uses Vi, emacs and Pico?
>
>-- 
>Blake Carver


Blake, Others:

NOPE, I still do!.  I *do* "cheat" by having over 50 "map!" entires in a
special vi .exrc, so I can type C! and get <Center> and !C to get
</Center>, etc. :-) :-)

On my PC, I do *sometimes* splurge and use Wordpad instead of Notepad,
especially when I've downloaded the file from Unix to DOS, and the CR
confuses DOS, and I get one long line in Notepad. :-) :-) :-)

I've taught everyone working on our sites who to use Pico (Vi being
considered a Dangerous Tool :-) ).  All of those people *have* been
through a 6-course (several classes per course) Webmaster Certification
process, which taught HTML via notepad, so...

And I firmly re-echo others' previously stated sentiment:  Everyone needs
to know HTML enough to code by hand.  If later on they want to use a
WYSIWYG editor, that's fine.  But the output better be human-readable!
(Personally, I don't use them at all.)

And recently, we have been required to pass not only Bobby but HTML 4.01
standards.  Using that w3c validator to check for & get errors pretty much
means we need to at least hand-fix our code.

James

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