Lee wrote:
On 4/28/13, Philip TAYLOR <[email protected]> wrote:
Lee wrote:
Save http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Fankhauser/Cheese/Ginger_Ale_Ag0.htm
open w/ SM, file / edit, try to delete the 2nd row in the top table.
View source.
Highlight :
<tr>
<td><br>
</td>
<td><br>
</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
Delete.
View normal.
Right - I know that :) And for non-trivial pages without linebreaks
or where TABLEs and/or DIVs are nested to an absurd degree one can
open the file with Notepad++, click on TextFX / TextFX HTML Tidy /
Tidy: Reindent HTML and have the html source reformatted so that it's
properly indented and easier to manually edit.
The point is that it's easier using Composer that it is to manually
edit html. Or at least that it's easier for me :)
Of course it's easier using anything lie Composer than knowing what
you're doing and editing by hand. Doesn't mean Composer (or any other
WYSIWYG) program is doing anything right. And, in 99% of cases, they
are NOT.
Look. A zillion people have access to building Web pages. With tools
which are marginal. Will the pages they create work "in a lot of
permutations?" Sure. Will they fail in a lot of others? Yep.
Just because you can create a Web page doesn't mean you should or should
expect it to work in all cases.
Tell you what. All of you casual HTML coders. Post URLs of the pages
you have created with Composer or come other similar too. Let's see
what havoc you done.
If not, conversation over.
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
A bird in the hand makes it difficult to blow your nose.
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