[WEB4LIB] Re: Column on HTML Editors

[Michelle Rempel]

I use a little-known but fantastic HTML editor called Web-O-Rama.  It can 
be found at http://www.kevingunn.com/  as donationware.  It automates a lot 
of the more tedious tasks but still lets you have full control over your 
code.  I haven't used a WYSIWYG in some time as I found they "bloated" the 
code too much.  Has that changed in recent versions of Front Page?  I took 
over our current site from a contractor who used some hand coding and some 
automatic programs.  I've found tags that I had never seen before and 
couldn't find any info on.  It turned out she didn't know either as it was 
something that the program threw in.  For example has anyone heard of 
<DICERTAGS> ?

Michelle Rempel
Peace Library System

At 10:06 AM 7/9/01, you wrote:
>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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