> We have MS Press as a sponsor so I have (MUST) to use FP, IIS,
> Commerce etc...
> I'll censure some of my opinion on this software but even if I know
> WYSWYG is meaningles in web developement, FP seems to be the most
> friendly WYSWYG editor I ever tryed. What I mean it doesn't fill up
> your code with scrambled/crazy-nested tags (or at least less than
> other editors).
Unless there is a new version of FP that I haven't seen yet, beyond the 98
version, I have to disagree. I have had to unscramble a few FP sites. There
is often extraneous code, such as <p><em><strong> </strong></em></p> or
</p><br><br>. It also is most unfriendly for viewing the code, due to the
way it breaks tags up like:
<td align="center" valign="top"><a
href="../audience_dev/index.html"
onmouseover="imgOn('audience')"
onmouseout="imgOff('audience')"><font
face="Arial"><img
src="../images2/home_audiencedevelopment.gif"
border="0" width="84" height="26"></font></a></td>
which makes it, IMO, very difficult to scroll through and find what you
need. There's lots to scroll through that, if line breaks were used less
frequently, would be more readable by manually choosing to temporarily wrap
(not actually inserting line breaks) or not wrap the lines in the text
editor.
The handling of table tags and the formatting of nested tables leaves much
to be desired, too. Another peeve, using font tags way too often. Way more
often than actually needed. Code bloat, but not necessarily code bloat that
won't pass an html validator's test. Oh, except for the occasional & tag
that is not supported by all browsers. Actually, the list goes on...
I recently had a new hire at a clients office download a site I had created,
import it to FrontPage, do some changes and copy the changed files right
back over the files I had created. Then they asked me for help fixing layout
problems. Erg. Created extra work for me (a tedious kind that I do not
relish) and extra $ spent by the client. After the new hire actually looked
at the code, he, on his own, realized that he had done a bad thing and
promised to never use that mangler again. As a newbie to html editing,
choosing FrontPage as an instructor is a bad idea.
On the sysadmin side, my main sysadmin says that a common problem with FP
users is that they ftp their files right over the _private config file,
causing errors. The sysadmin also said that FP Extensions cause extra
problems with the stability of his servers. He supports them, and doesn't
take issue with them, but has made those observations (and is willing to
live with them).
Jack
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