On Monday 11 February 2002 13:59, Roman Korcek wrote: > Hey, > > > I hope no one minds but I have to ask this, Why does everyone > > hate frontpage as much as they do. > > Well, my personal reason is something I've seen on a page created > by "Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0". It put, > quote start: > > <p align="center"><font color="#00FFFF" face="Lucida Handwriting"> > <strong></strong></font> </p> > > quote end, > where a simple <br> would be the Right Thing (tm). > > I don't hate it, I just would never use it. I can do better HTML > and CSS than FrontPage. > My thoughts, more or less. My real gripe is less with Front Page (full version) as with Front Page Express, which, unless things have changed recently, doesn't give you the option of choosing your HTML version and will by default include non-standard MS tags (pretty much like the "Save as HTML" option in Word). Front Page Express is responsibly for most of the unreadable HTML on the web (with Netscape composer 4* accounting for the rest). In my more paranoid moments, I suspect that this was a deliberate move on MS's part - serious web designers would buy the full version or use something else, while Express users probably wouldn't be aware of how awful their pages looked in other browsers because they only use IE: "I mean, I even went to the trouble of putting 'Best viewed with Internet Explorer 5.2' on the site, and some people still complain that it doesn't look good in Opera!" ;-)
Robin -- "Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted." Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
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