[WEB4LIB] Re: web publishing process

[Thomas Dowling]

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From: Mark Gooch <Mark.Gooch at law.csuohio.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 10:15 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: web publishing process


>...What I am interested to know is are people concerned about
>the "bloated" files and less than clean HTML code produced by some of the
>HTML editors (Netscape Composer, Front Page, etc.) in this type of
>situation.  I've been contemplating whether to have staff here create
pages
>on their own with Composer or some other editor.  I'm concerned that the
>less than stellar code  which is created (and I don't consider myself an
>HTML "purist") will eventually fill our server with files which are
larger
>than necessary.  Also, when people run into coding problems I will likely
be
>the one who has to hunt through this code to find the problems.  What do
>others think about this?
>

The problems with being able to comprehend the code after the fact may be
helped in some cases by Dave Raggett's "tidy" utility
<URL:http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/>.  Any bloat in the size of
the HTML source generated is all too often dwarfed by the images on the
page.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu