Posted by Stewart Gordon on 01/13/06 17:15

GreyWyvern wrote:
> And lo, Stewart Gordon didst speak in
> alt.html,alt.www.webmaster,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:
>
>> GreyWyvern wrote:
>>
>>> It actually recommends replacing this bit of WYSIWYG code:
>>> <CENTER><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT
>>> FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE="+1"><FONT
>>> COLOR="red"><B>&nbsp;</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></P></DIV></CENTER>
>>> ... with this "huge" improvement:
>>> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica" SIZE="+1"
>>> COLOR="red"><B>&nbsp;</B></FONT></P>
>>> For heaven sakes, you shouldn't be inserting empty <p> tags for
>>> blank space in the *first place*! The proper "replacement" would be
>>> to remove the code altogether and apply a greater CSS margin to the
>>> sibling elements.
<snip>
> *My* point is that the article *recommends* using the second given code
> snippet above as a replacement for the WYSIWYG code. *Both* examples
> are horribly bloated.

No it doesn't. Read the sentence that introduces the second code
snippet again (assuming you ever read it at all), especially the first
two words of it.

<snip>
> No. I think that if someone is going to switch from WYSIWYG to
> hand-coding, they shouldn't start with WYSIWYG code and prune down from
> there. Rather they should start with a blank text editor (and perhaps
> an HTML/CSS reference guide or two) and work their way up.

Assuming that, if they had made it look very "fancy" in the WYSIWYDG,
then they don't mind that the site'll look more basic until they've
learned the particular bits of CSS to achieve the desired level of
fanciness.

Stewart.

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