ADOBE PageMill (fwd)

[Peter C. Gorman]

Bill Crosbie writes:

>I copied the following from the HOTDOG 2.0 Professional Help and submit them
>for you to make your own decisions.

You reinforce my point. Authors *should* be able to make their own
decisions regarding the kind of markup they use. It is PageMill's apparent
failure to allow this (by forcing use of <center>) that frustrates me.

Personally, I put a lot of value in the standards process, and I try keep
strictly to the DTD in my own pages. PageMill apparently doesn't give me
the freedom to write standard HTML. HotDog is another tool that seems to
ignore the existence of the standards process. It uses both HTML and
Netscape markup, but does not distinguish between the two. At least you get
the choice, though, and it is a decent editor.

The authors of HotDog make some arguments for <center>. I've seen equally
persuasive arguments against it. The fundamental judgement I make in such
matters is that the markup defined in the HTML 'standard' is more likely to
be around in 10 years than anything invented by Netscape, Microsoft, IBM,
Sun...

Uh oh. I started by raving aginst a tool's inflexibility, but am heading
into the Markup Wars. Duck!


PG
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Peter C. Gorman
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