G'day John,
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 07:36:37 -0700, John Oram wrote:
> - Microsoft Ships Simple Web-Publishing Tool
> Microsoft shipped a desktop application today that lets
> customers add Internet multimedia features to Office
> documents without the need for HTML coding. Vizact 2000,
You're right, M$ is moving the goal posts again and hopes the masses
will continue to play the game. Mind you, if this product generates
HTML as inefficiently as Word2000 does then we will all need to buy
Fibre Optic links.
For example, I'm doing a simple website for one of my clients, which
includes an online version of their main brochure. This document is
about 8 pages (A4) of text, no images or clipart, and only 3 different
fonts. Compare the file sizes:
- original document (Word 2000 DOC) = 34816 bytes
- original converted to HTML by Word 2000 = 96358 bytes
- original converted to DOS textfile by View = 18712 bytes
- my browser-neutral HTML version of the original = 20521 bytes
Incidentally, the HTML generated by Word2000 did not render correctly in
Arachne 1.48, Netscape 4 (Win95 and Linux versions), nor - ironically -
in Internet Explorer 4.0. All four browsers displayed HTML code
fragments that were not intended to be seen onscreen.
Moreover, examination of Word 2000's HTML with any text editor revealed
the username and (encrypted) password for my client's PC embedded in the
HEAD section!
cheers,
Fraser Farrell
http://www.dove.net.au/~fraserf/
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