[simpits-chat] Word vs. Textpad

[Sean Galbraith]

At 05:27 PM 1/17/03 -0500, you wrote:
>What do you think about Netscape Composer? For my humble little page it does
>fine, but I never inspect the raw HTML. I don't know any HTML actually.
>
>         -Matt Bailey

Me too... Composer is just about simple enough for me to not get too 
confused :)

S.

>On Friday 17 January 2003 03:25 pm, you wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Brian Sikkema wrote:
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > On a bored whim I decided to pit Word's html exporting capabilities
> > > against my hand-editing of a webpage in Textpad. Here are the results:
> > >
> > > http://www.me.mtu.edu/~bjsikkem/Web/
> > >
> > > I simply wrote "Hello World" on the page and exported it, and then made
> > > the identical page with Textpad. Looking at the two pages they LOOK
> > > identical - right down to the title. The difference?
> > >
> > > The Word version is 2k and 60 lines long - thats right, 60 lines, to put
> > > "Hello World" on the page and title. Mine is but 9 lines.
> > >
> > > This is just for a very simple page. Imagine laying out a very complex
> > > one, with tables and pictures and all of that. EWWWWWWW.
> >
> > I've yet to find a 'good' web tool. The worst of the bunch seems to be
> > FrontPage which produces wonderfully useful things like:
> >
> > <p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif size="2" color="black"></p>
> >
> > Loads of redundant crap - everywhere.
> >
> >
> > I prefer to do it by hand.  <fnarr fnarrr>
> >
> >
> > Roy.
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