MCBastos wrote:
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.
I didn't say, and I don't think, that word processors produce good HTML.
I wouldn't even try to draft it in Word. But they do make good
word-processed documents. With a basic understanding of styles and a few
other best practices, you can avoid the problems you describe.
Soon enough, you watch, we'll be able to write HTML the way we write wp
docs. Not today, but soon. It's only a matter of time.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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