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Posted by William Tasso on 01/12/06 02:00
Fleeing from the madness of the Road Runner High Speed Online
http://www.rr.com jungle
Samman <sam@psfripitdev.com> stumbled into
news:alt.html,alt.www.webmaster,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
and said:
> "William Tasso" <SpamBlocked@tbdata.com> wrote in message
> news:op.s28kw5opm9g4qz-wnt@tbdata.com...
>> Fleeing from the madness of the Road Runner High Speed Online
>> http://www.rr.com jungle
>> Samman <sam@psfripitdev.com> stumbled into
>> news:alt.html,alt.www.webmaster,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
>> and said:
>>
>>> "granpaw" <dontsend@here> wrote in message
>>> news:dNqdnVPg9-_jwF_eRVn-hQ@centurytel.net...
>>>> MajorSetback@excite.com wrote in
>>>> news:1136679729.465295.312080@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>>>>
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> Hello Peter,
>>>> No one needs to use a bloated (IMHO) webpage editor that costs big
>>>> money
>>>> and adds all kinds of useless junk to your code usch as DW or
>>>> Frontpage.
>>>
>>> </snip>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you be more specific about what DW adds to the code?
>>>
>>
>> example only:
>>
>> <table>
>> ...
>> <tr width="270">
>> <td></td>
>> <td></td>
>> <td></td>
>> <td></td>
>> <td></td>
>> <td></td>
>> </tr>
>> </table>
>>
>> ...
>>
>> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
>>
>
> That is indeed interesting...
> I have been working with DW in a production environment for about 4 years
> and have not witnessed code (markup) being generated like that, unless
> asked
> to do so.
well - yes, that's the point isn't it.
> Example. I asked DW to make a table, 100% in width, 3 rows and 2 columns.
> Here is the markup it gave me...
>
> <table width="100%" summary="test table">
> <tr>
> <td> </td>
> <td> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td> </td>
> <td> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td> </td>
> <td> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
Ahh yes - forgot the - apologies, above was from memory.
> The non-breaking spaces it inserts are just placeholders, where other
> objects/content would be placed. After content is added, it looks like
> this
> (no code cleaning was done)...
>
> <table width="100%" summary="test table">
> <tr>
> <td>Lorem ipsum dolor si</td>
> <td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consect</td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit am</td>
> <td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscin</td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit </td>
> <td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectet</td>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> Looks pretty clean to me, nicely indented, etc...
markup looks just fine and dandy[1] - goes to show that power-tools make
stuff quicker, not necessarily better[2]. Not sure where you're posting
from, but in AWW we see a lot of empty tables when reviewing
DW/FP/whatever generated pages
> I'm not trying to convince you to use the tool. Use whatever you are
> comfortable, happy & productive with. :-)
Likewise - live long and prosper.
[1] usual caveats about correct use of table markup applies
[2] the number of people that can't drill a straight hole is truly
astonishing
--
William Tasso
Save the drama
for your Mama.
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