Ed Mullen <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob wrote: >> Michael Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Using Microsoft Excel to export as HTML purely sucks. Microsoft uses >>> proprietary coding that works well with IE, but falls flat on its face >>> for standards compliant web browsers. >> >> I don't agree with that. >> >> I needed to include a table in an e-mail I wanted to send someone, >> and I copied an Excel sheet into the e-mail in Seamonkey 2.14.1 >> >> It looked beautiful, and now that I go back to the Sent folder >> and look at the plain HTML it looks good as well. I know that >> it does not work so when when copying from Word (there is a lot >> of extra junk that accomplishes next to nothing) but this is >> about Excel, not Word. >> >> It is also not true that the code works only in IE. >> It looks like you are uttering findings of 10 years ago. >> > > You missed that he said "export" from Excel. Saving as HTML from any > Office app produces horrendous HTML. > > What you did was copy and let the HTML composer turn the paste action > into decent code.
That is not how it works. I don't know the exact technical details, but it appears that when you cut and paste in Windows both ends agree on the format being used for the cut/paste, and in this case it is HTML. The actual HTML is generated by the producer (Excel in this case). I can recognize the HTML as being generated by Office, but I don't agree with others that it is a mess. You may not know about the "web options" button on the "options/general" settings page where you can configure what is being generated. > 5. Highlight the text and choose Table - Create table from selection That actually is a useful option I did not know about. (or did not remember when faced with the problem of pasting tab-separated data into an outgoing mail as a table) _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
