Interviewed by CNN on 14/03/2013 22:39, Paul B. Gallagher told the world: > Ed Mullen wrote: > >> And I haven't perused the thread in detail. But, it is typical of >> those who expect WYSIWYG editors to work properly. And then >> complain. >> >> Sigh. It won't do any good but I'll say what I always say: >> >> Learn HTML and CSS. >> >> Get a good text editor and code by hand. >> >> Or. >> >> Live with the crap that WYSIWYG programs create. >> >> And, yes, I once used them. Back in 1996. And then I grew up. > > I remember a couple of decades ago when word processors were like that. > Remember Word Imperfect's reveal-codes feature, where you could see > exactly what it was doing under the hood? > > Soon enough, we won't have to code HTML by hand, we'll just write and > format content the way we do in a word processor. We're not there yet, > but I can see it coming. >
What makes you think that word processors are doing that job any better than WYSIWYG HTML editors? They aren't. I do some amateur fiction writing, and let me tell you: I gave up on Word formatting. After a couple cycles of revision, you are GUARANTEED to end up with misformatted paragraphs, weird inter-line spacing, inconsistently-applied styles, inexplicably changing fonts and the like. And the worst part is, when you try to fix something, it inevitably breaks something else. No, I use Word only for the drafts, and I only do the most basic formatting on it. After I finish the writing, I export it as HTML, clean up all the unbelievable cruft it adds (I have scripts for that) and apply CSS styles by hand. That way, I can actually get what I wanted. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Casio DataMemo. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.16.2 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
