I bounce back and forth between using tools, and using vi/notepad.  The
statement you show is not a valid statement in HTML 4.01 Transitional.  It
looks like it might be xhtml, but I haven't progressed that far yet in my
self-education.  I suppose like anything else, an HTML coder must be
interested in doing it correctly, before they will do it that way,
regardless of what tools they use.  I've updated my scripts I use to
generate the final HTML files for linuxvm.org to invoke tidydbg and alert me
if I've done something wrong in the source or template files.  I would never
describe myself as a proficient HTML coder, but I do make sure my pages
validate (now).  (There are a couple of pages that don't validate, so I
don't put the little "valid html" image on them.  Eventually I'll figure out
how to do what I want _and_ be able to validate it.)

Horrible HTML can be generated with tools, or by hand.  Good HTML is the
same way.  Like most things, it's not the tool, but how it's used.

Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 1:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT- Website creation Software

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HTML takes a day to think you learned. When your pages pass the
validator.w3.org site and the bobby accessibility test set then maybe
you have learned. As it is your average "Im an eleet notepad web
page writer" can't write pages that validate and wouldn't have a clue
what
        <b>Hi</> there <>!</>

actually did, or if it was valid html

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