Posted by Paul Ding on 01/14/06 20:07

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:54:14 -0800, Blinky the Shark
<no.spam@box.invalid> posted something that included:

>>>> 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written in 1997, and is now horribly out of date.

>> On a .info domain ?

>How do you know it's not a 1997 product that's been moved to an .info
>site?

The Wayback Machine is your friend.

http://web.archive.org/web/19990422080027/www.softdisk.com/comp/dan/webtips/wysiwyg.html

However, although the page is old, Dan Tobias is still right to keep
the page up. HTML editors are still terrible, are still doing much of
the same crap, and my prediction is that they will still be bad in
2025.





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If we're losing 40-130 species a day,
How come nobody can itemize them?
And why can't fruitflies be one of them?

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