Posted by Eric Lindsay on 02/16/07 13:23

In article <0001HW.C1F9E44000DB7D59B022094F@news.supernews.com>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

> There is indeed software, available now for the Macintosh, that allows one to
> construct a website using WYSIWYG methods and with no requirement that the
> user should have any knowledge of such as HTML. That software is Freeway
> Express and Freeway Pro. Freeway works much like InDesign in that the website
> author concentrates on appearance and action and not upon the underlying code
> that makes things happen. As an aside, the resulting HTML of a Freeway
> generated website is quite good, usually passing the strictest of code
> verification.

Actually, if you want an interesting challenge, try to write a
traditional restaurant menu using Freeway (or any other wysiwyg tool on
a Mac).

The challenging bit is to have a dotted leader from the meal to the
price, and for that dotted leader to cope with any browser window size
or font size the reader uses, so the meal is on the left, and the price
is on the right regardless of browser changes.

Steak and eggs ....................................... 10.95
over easy, sunny side up, scrambled
Bacon and eggs .......................................10.95
over easy, sunny side up, scrambled

I have two or three ways of doing that manually (all of them with
unacceptable problems). It seemed so simple when I first tried it.

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