On 4/28/2013 7:45 PM Ed Mullen submitted the following: > 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. > > > And run them thru the W3C validatorS before posting": http://validator.w3.org/ for the HTML and http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ for the CSS.
And just for kicks and giggles run through the HTML/XMTL Tidy program: http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ I suggest using the 03/25/2009 version. -- Ed,W3BNR _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
