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Posted by Jim S on 10/04/06 10:16
On 4 Oct 2006 02:33:51 -0700, bigdaddybs wrote:
> jussij@zeusedit.com wrote:
>> Travis Newbury wrote:
>>
>>> > An editor does what I tell it to. Frontpage changes my content in
>>> > ways that it thinks are right, and it's frequently wrong too.
>>>
>>> Sounds like user error to me...
>>
>> Lets assume a user writes the some valid HTML in notepad, gives it
>> to FP only to have FP re-write the HTML and spit it back as some
>> non standard HTML full of FP extensions.
>>
>> Sounds like the problem with the tool to me.
>>
>> The only user error here is he/she is still using FP ;)
>>
>> Jussi Jumppanen
>
> FrontPage does NOT add or change code unless you ask it to. It may
> reformat, if you have not spent any time at all in preferences/options
> - one of the options is to leave the HTML alone, or the way it's
> entered in the Source Tab and the default is NOT to, which I will
> concede is an error you can blame on MS/FP.
>
> The point is, if you don't kinow the capabilities of a product, and
> only go by the crap that people allow it to put out, you can't bitch
> about ANY editor. From much of what I've heard, here, few people DO
> understand that. Any other WYSIWYG editor would do the same, though the
> defaults may be set differently..
>
> BigDaddyBS
At last a sensible reply.
I was the OP and have lurked while the various posters have got their
prejudices out of their system.
I came late to HTML as I probably said and although I can cope fairly well,
it is nice to use FP to do the hard work then go through and clean up. One
of the benefits over notepad++, which I also use, is that I can see what I
am doing all the time.
In FP I have it set to satisfy both Explorer and Navigator and have
ActiveX-Controls and Dynamic-HTML unticked so what I CAN do is self-limited.
Oh and another useful trick of FP is that if I go to 'Open' and change the
name of a folder, it will change the name in any folder that has links to or
from the one I changed.
I have used NVU, but at present it can only save to one folder and one
sub-folder by default.
I have gone through the gamut of Dreamweaver and HTMLKit etc etc, but
whatever anyone says FP is the easiest for me(with Topstyle Lite for CSS)
HOWEVER that was not my original question which was: what harm can it do to
use the non-standard tricks in FP? Is the worst thing that they won't behave
correctly in all browser or is it more serious than that?
--
Jim S
Tyneside UK
http://www.jimscott.co.uk
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