George expelled:
> 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?
Barking at the moon?
Jack
p.s. arrrf, arrrrf...........grrrrrrrrr.........ruf
(Think I'm gonna name my next dog "FP")
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