[WEB4LIB] Re: web publishing process

[Thomas Dowling]

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Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 10:48 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: web publishing process


>On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Mark Gooch wrote:
>
>> ...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.)...
>
>A partial solution might be to run the files thru John Walkers perl
script
>"Demoroniser". Described as an application that:
>
>"correct moronic and gratuitously incompatible HTML generated by
>Microsoft applications"

A point of clarification: the original post mentioned FrontPage by name.
The Demoroniser page mentions PowerPoint by name and seems to have been
written solely to clean up specific tagging problems from PowerPoint.
It's certainly true that the Office applications and MS Publisher are
responsible for some of the worst markup you could ever hope to see, and
probably merit the sort of diatribe John Walker provides.  However, pages
I've seen recently suggest that the current version of FrontPage, whatever
its other problems, mostly avoids the problems Demoroniser addresses.

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