From: Lorin Rivers (lrivers@realsoftware.com)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 11:08:01 PST
At 10:40 AM -0800 1/3/01, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:
>I know, it's an obnoxious question, but I like to edit HTML both by hand
>(e.g. with emacs) and with a WYSIWYG tool.
>
>The problem I keep running into is that the WYSIWYG tool will rewrite the
>HTML in ugly and stupid ways. For example:
>
> size="4" face="times, times new roman">hotbot</font></a><font
> size="4" face="times, times new roman"> </font><a
>
>href="http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq&what=web"><font
> size="4" face="times, times new roman">altavista</font></a><font
> size="4" face="times, times new roman"> </font><a
> href="http://www.google.com/"><font size="4"
> face="times, times new
>roman"><strong>google</strong></font></a><font
> size="4" face="times, times new roman"> </font><a
> href="http://www.findsame.com"><font color="#00FFFF"
> size="4" face="times, times new roman">findsame</font></a><font
> size="4" face="times, times new roman"> </font><a
>
>href="http://www.excite.com/search_forms/advanced?lang=en&c_type=c_count
>ry&c_country=web"><font
> size="4" face="times, times new roman">excite</font></a><font
> size="4" face="times, times new roman"> </font><a
>
>I mean, how many times do you have to specify the same font?
>
>- Joe
>
>P.S. Bonus points for a tool that can clean up the above code.
I like Dreamweaver. It cleans code -- but only as much as you want. I
haven't gotten to play with the latest version, which fixes a painful
problem with using JavaScript with templates (pretty much my only
complaint).
Integrates well with BBEdit (Mac) and HomeSite (Winders).
--Lorin Rivers 512.263.1233 x712 v Product Manager 512.263.1441 f REAL Software, Inc. mailto:lrivers@realsoftware.com PMB 220 http://www.realsoftware.com 3300 Bee Caves Road, Suite 650 Austin, Texas 78746 REALbasic: the visual, object-oriented BASIC development environment for the Macintosh
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