Default Float placement is pathetic

[Marwan Boustany]

Peace,

Is it necessary to force very float to be 'here definitely' if I actually  
want it to be correctly placed in the text?

I tried to leave all floats at default, and when the pdf was created,  
there were floats in the middle of itemize lists, on the wrong pages and  
even in the wrong order... totally erratic...

I tried a number of the options associated with float placement.  But the  
only one that was correct, mostly, was to force it to be 'here definitely'.

Why is the default placement so bad?  Any ideas as to why the default is  
so bad? Suggestions?

It is just that in the manual it states that forcing things to be 'here  
definitely' can destroy page layout.

--
Peace