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From: "Thomas Dowling" <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Favorite HTML editor and page authoring software?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:25:09 -0500
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>Although most of my HTML is done in a text editor, I'm thinking of
getting
>a program that will help write cgi scripts, as I'm told Front Page does.

FrontPage helps with CGI scripts?  I wasn't aware of that--I thought it
only steered you toward ASP.

>
>Would anyone care to recommend their favorites, or steer me clear of the
>ones they found difficult or frustrating to use?
>
>Ideally, I want to have one that will allow me to "resist" its
suggestions
>about my current HTML.  I've found that with Pagemill and some other
>web writing software, if you take an existing, reasonably clean HTML page
>and try to add new text in the editor, it will also alter all your
>previous tags, even if your HTML works and is is relatively clean.  (For
>example, I find that existing tables will get new spacing because some
>editors insist that a <P> tag start all text within a <TD> box.
>

The last time I tested this, every graphical HTML editor I tried, except
one, made substantive (and usually invalid) changes to my markup without
telling me.  The one exception was HoTMetaL Pro.  Several tag-based
editors were happy to open my existing HTML and save it without silently
revising my markup.

I originally posted this to Web4Lib in September of 1997, and it's in the
archive as
<URL:http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/9709/0389.html>.  I
looked at some of the available editors again last fall and didn't observe
much change.

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