At 12:37 PM 6/25/1998 -0700, Jack Killpatrick so eloquently stated:
>George wrote:
>
>> Like everything else, FP has it's place
>
>You're gonna get me barking again, G.
>
>> and, IMHO, it's major
>> benefit is the way it manages links and the overall site as you
>> are developing.
>
>There are many other tools that do that.
>
>> Then you strip out the crap (as I stated
>> before)
>
>translation: "then you waste time"
>
>>, and ftp to a site without extensions.
>
>translation: then you hack the given method because it doesn't work.
>
>> Maybe I shouldn't be taking the FP side of this discussion,
>> because it is not our main tool, and we do alter the output often.
>
>Por qua? (sp?) Why do you alter the output?
>
>> For a newbie (who started this) it's not a bad tool.
>
>Depends on the direction the newbie wants to take in the long run. Seems a
>lot easier to learn how to do things "right" (please no new thread on my use
>of this word) by starting with:
>
><HTML>
><HEAD>
> <TITLE></TITLE>
></HEAD>
><BODY>
>
></BODY>
></HTML>
>
>plus a few tags to get started: <p><br><table><tr><td><img>
>
>How long can it take to learn that? Much less time than it takes to figure
>out what all the menus do in FP, prolly. It gives power to the user, not
>dinero to MS. The learning curve is probably much shorter that way than
>trying to figure out what the **** FP is doing under the sheets. Maybe
>Kathy can concur with this, having just taught an html class? Add the time
>it takes to undo an FP created site and you are probably talking a
>substantial amount of time that could have been used another way (making
>tacos/dancing in the streets/singing drinking songs).
>
>> For
>> diehards it sucks.
>
>what is a diehard?
>
>> For a business owner, who may be more
>> interested in selling stuff on the Net, it ain't bad.
>
>depends on what they're selling. If they intend to use FP to create much
>interaction, they're barking up the wrong tree. It's webbots depend on FP
>extensions on the server and they offer very little in the way of
>customization.
>
>I foresee that the next FP will probably have database access tools
>built-in, but they'll still bite because they'll be made for the FP
>audience.</snide>
>
Woof!
You know, we haven't had so much fun with a thread since TJ was
in his prime. Where is that lad?
G
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