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Re: Sausage Software: the products

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From: Joe Spanicek
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:00
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Jim Nguyen wrote:

> DRS (simpsond@removethis.tig.com.au) wrote:
>
> : You moron.  I rely almost exclusively on HTML editing.  I need the control
> : over the code to ensure things like greater compatibility with older
> : browsers and so forth than FrontPage et al can give me.  WYSIWYG is good for
> : amateurs and those of us who use it as a prototyping tool, but with 57
> : varieties of HTML still floating around the good old text editor has a long
> : life ahead of it.
>
> Well you're just a programmer wannabe fuckwit. So tell me exactly what
> kind of control you have over the "code"? So what if there is 57 varieties
> of HTML out there? Being such a specific number you probably know them
> all right? It's not particularly hard to make pages compatible with the
> two major browsers which most people are concerned with since these two
> are at the cutting edge of html implementation not to mention user-base
> dominance. But if you find it particularly challenging to make it compatible
> with every browser on every platform good for you, you loser. Most of us
> have better things to do with our time.
>
> HTML is no big deal, it's just a basic multimedia delivery and convergence
> language and not much else. If you've got no life and or deluded by some
> notion of hardcore elitist html coding fairy land by all means do with
> notepad. The rest of use save time by using WYSIWYG editors that offer
> straight forward control over pag layout. I use WebExpress for the bulk
> of it all and Allaire Homesite for deeper html coding when it's necessary.
>
> -
> j.n.    http://netspace.net.au/~nguyen/

 Well.

I guess you are one of those people who do not understand HTML at all and how to
apply it or use a
simple editor to write it.

Your saving grace is WYSIWYG editors that do the code for you.

In anycase HTML is a form of programming language.

From a programmer's perspective
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From: Joe Spanicek <joe@resptk.bhp.com.au>
Subject: Re: Sausage Software: the products
Date: 1998/04/29
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