[WEB4LIB] Re: Converting FrontPage 2000 to DreamWeaver 3

[Raymond Wood]

Precisely.  More and more people are beginning to realize the importance
of promoting established standards, and proactively eschewing these
so-called value-added proprietary solutions.

Agility = flexibility = open standards

I was recently flabbergasted as I read an analysis from the Forrester (sp?)
pundits that predicted 'open source' software solutions would overtake
proprietary software in a few short years.

(Wishing I had kept the URL!)
Raymond

On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:47:27AM -0700, George Porter wrote:
> The problem, as I see it, is that the proprietary site management functions
> (themes, navigation, etc) tie you to a single GUI HTML editor, perhaps also
> operating system and web server.  CSS or XSL are standards-based,
> editor-independent ways to accomplish the same ends.  If your software of
> choice ceases to be marketed, falls out of the campus/library site license
> plans, etc, you will have many headaches to reproduce the desired effects in
> another proprietary format, or converting the code to achieve the
> functionality through CSS/XSL.
> 
> George S. Porter
> Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
> Caltech, 1-43
> Pasadena, CA  91125-4300
> Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681
>