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Jim Nguyen wrote:

<SNIIIIIP>Well, I don't know if this is another Nguyen troll (it has all the
makings of a potential flame war), however, I'm going to throw my 2c in.

> So what part of the html code do you have control over with your notepad
> that cannot be done in 1/10 the time it does to do in a WYSIWYG editor?

Amen.

> The way I see it if the user's browser isn't up to scratch or still using
> win3 fuck'em. Obviously they're not interested in any fancy stuff and
> probably run on a crap machine. Their software/hdware limitations
> shouldn't be a shackle to the page maker's creative limits in
> implementing the latest www shabanggery for the people who have the stuff
> to appreciate it. Why should advancing vendors waste time back-stepping
> to cater for people with obsolete technology?

Yes. The same people that want us to write only Lynx-friendly HTML are the same
people that believe new cars should be "speed limited" to allow Model A Fords to
keep up with them on the roads.

Wake up DRS. Long gone are the days when HTML was the domain of geeks who enjoyed
typing tags to make a page. WYSIWYG editors have contributed significantly to the
volume of material (this is NOT a comment about quality) on the internet. When I
wrote my first web page back in 1991 (in the heady days of NCSA Mosaic) I used
Pico (Unix text editor). I continued to use text based editing until Netscape "got
it right" in Composer. Now I use Composer first and foremost, however, I still
drag up notepad to do a final tidy-up of my final page when necessary.

I will not cripple my web pages for the sake of the bandwidth-lame or
browser-inept.

WYSIWYG is sufficient (read: Overkill) for 99% of HTML authors. DRS - why can't
you just accept the facts - if your strongest "programming" lies in HTML you
*have* been made semi-redundant by quality WYSIWYG editors.
<Bonus-DRS-Friendly-Emphasis> Understand? </Bonus-DRS-Friendly-Emphasis>

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