>> Tell me about it. Since I haven't take the time to sit down and learn HTML
>> coding yet I use FrontPage, you want to look at that for a prime example of
>> bloated HTML production....I've heard tales of some pages being three times
>> larger than they could be mentioned in the FP newsgroup. :-(
>
>Prime example ? Well, one can name it that way ... I still do
>99% of my HTML stuff in notepad - maybe not realy a world class
>tool, but one get's used to it. And even the German umlauts are
>not exactly a problem ü unstead of an "u isn't that hard.
>
>Anyway, I once _had_ to use Frontpage to modify some pages
>I did, and they did not only tripple in size, but also these
>pages didn't render any longer correctly in some browser !=
>MS-Explorer (And last but not least in my case, the code did
>become completly unreadable - why 1000 times set font attributes
>if I don't care for fonts at all ?)
You know the amazing thing about this. I'm lazy, but won't use MS products
so I use Adobe PageMill 3.0 on a Mac. It's got an option that lets you
edit the source when you need to do little tweaks, AND it produces tight
readable HTML. I could produce *slightly* smaller documents by hand
(literally a few bytes is all), yet it wouldn't look anywhere near as good.
The result looks good with old browsers and non-standard browsers, as well
as new ones. Although I see the frames version is horrible under Lynx.
As far as I'm concerned MS shouldn't be allowed to have any products that
have ANYTHING to do with HTML! When I get an E-Mail message written in
Outlook Express that contains one short sentence, and an entire page of
unreadable garbage somethings is wrong. In the past I've seen message on
this list that showed up as a blank page under Eudora Pro on my Mac because
they were created with Lookout Express!
Zane
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Received on Mon Feb 07 2000 - 15:52:51 GMT