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Posted by GreyWyvern on 01/13/06 16:21
And lo, Stewart Gordon didst speak in
alt.html,alt.www.webmaster,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:
> I hear that FP is joining NetObjects Fusion in the league of worst web
> page editors ever made. Some of the newer versions do some things that
> exceed all stupidity, e.g. in some circums it'll convert a block of text
> into an ugly image for no reason.
>
> http://webtips.dan.info/wysiwyg.html
I took a little time to read that article and it is a *terrible* example
to foist on newbies who want to abandon WYSIWYG obsfucation. It was
written in 1997, and is now horribly out of date. 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> </B></FONT></FONT></FONT></P></DIV></CENTER>
.... with this "huge" improvement:
<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica" SIZE="+1"
COLOR="red"><B> </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.
> Hand-coding is the way to go.
It certainly is, but don't follow any advice from that article, except the
part where it says to stop using the WYSIWYG editor. :)
Grey
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