Posted by Kevin Scholl on 07/28/06 01:32

Toby Inkster wrote:

> None of the current generation of WYSMAWYG editors will ever give
> you anywhere near the same quality as pages hand-coded by someone
> who knows what they're doing though. (Because their whole premise
> is based on the idea that HTML is a visual language, and that
> ideally all browsers should display a given page identically.)

You need to be a little more specific as to what type of code you are
referring. I would generally agree with you when referring to any kind
of programmatic code (Javascript, PHP, ASP, etc.), and for the most part
CSS as well. There are simply too many variables with those.

However, I do not agree with your assessment for (X)HTML generation. A
few minutes of proper setup in the Preferences of Dreamweaver, along
with regular use of a few of the Command options, and it can/will
produce code as clean as any hand coded. I cannot speak with much
accuracy to other applications, however.

That said, there is no substitute for underlying knowledge of, and
ability to produce, raw code. Even if one uses a generator for the most
mundane of tasks, it's important to understand what going on under the hood.

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