On 2/13/11 9:01 PM, Ed Mullen wrote: > Leroy Tennison wrote: >> I'm running into a problem with other HTML editors where they >> automatically do "helpful" things "for me" which are contrary to what I >> want and actually harmful to the final result. One example is converting >> the ASP indicators to something unrecognizable which results in the ASP >> code being interpreted as regular HTML. Another example is adding the >> <body> and </body> keywords to an HTML file which break an <iframe> >> implementation when used as an <iframe> target. I realize that frames in >> general is depreciated but this is the issue I'm trying to avoid - >> having someone else decide what's good for me and making automatic >> modifications to what I write to enforce it. >> >> Does Seamonkey's HTML Editor make these kinds of changes to HTML which >> is saved or require them in order to save the file? If so, is there a >> way to disable those kinds of modifications so that what I finally save >> consists only of modifications I make? I'm not talking about generated >> HTML for explicit actions I take (such as creating or modifying a >> table), I'm talking about modifications which are "made for me" without >> my knowledge. >> >> Thanks for any feedback. > > Every WYSIWYG HTML editor makes such suggestions/changes. And every one > of them creates dubious code. Some of them create horrible code. > > The only - ONLY - answer is to learn HTML and CSS and use a plain-text > editor to write your pages. > > Every page on my sites is done this way. > > Then you validate: > > http://validator.w3.org/ > > http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ > > Then you correct. > > Then you (hopefully) have a good site. >
You view the page with a browser -- better yet with two unrelated browsers -- to make sure the resulting layout resembles what you had in mind. You try changing the window sizes of the browsers to make sure the layout adapts; not everyone has a 21-inch monitor. You also proof-read the displayed text, both using a spell checker and manually using your eyes (or better yet, having someone else read the text aloud to you). -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
