Re: Web authoring tools
Re: Web authoring tools
- Subject: Re: Web authoring tools
- From: Peter Fine <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:22:07 -0500
on 1/9/01 12:33 AM, Richard 23 at email@hidden wrote:
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My basic advice seems sound enough:
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don't be seduced by the flashy wysiwyg editors,
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follow the recommendations of the w3c <http://w3.org/>
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don't be suckered into writing for one specific browser.
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I think we probably agree on at least that much....
Yes, with no "buts". It's merely a question of how one gets there.
In particular, don't spend the big bucks for a wysiwig editor!
I do have to say that Alpha is not the thing to suggest to anyone who isn't
a UNIX-based propeller-head. I can't make heads or tails out of it. The
website(s) and the mailing list I have found are totally incomprehensible to
me. And its not AppleScriptable. You have to wrestle with Perl and Tcl/Tk.
It's truely a tool for deep-dyed programmers. Don't take offense, but that
means you! I look forward to your posts, but I don't understand a lot of it.
I do understand how hard it is to think like someone who *doesn't* get it
when you *do* get it, but the topics on which I am expert are not
computer-related.
There are some HTML-writing resources available for Tex-Edit and Style, both
elegant, inexpensive and scriptable, but I think one needs some background
to use these effectively.
Peter