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Re: Sausage Software: the products

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From: Dave Joll
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:00
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Steve wrote in message ...

>Which brings me to another problem with most WYSIWYG editors.  They are
>often horribly inefficient.  I've seen some that generate code that treats
>_every_ letter separately when settings modes such as bolding etc.  (It's
>been months since I bothered writing HTML, so these references are bound to
>be wrong), e.g. instead of <UL>This text is supposed to be underlined</UL>
>it'd have <UL>T</UL><UL>h</UL><UL>i</UL> etc. etc.  Now, how dumb is this!?


It must be a *very* dumb browser to create a list when what
you really want is an underline! :-)

Regards

Dave Joll

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jollian/
"When it looks like there are two sides to an issue, there
are probably at least three"  -  Mark Gruenwald
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From: "Dave Joll" <jollian@es.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Sausage Software: the products
Date: 1998/04/29
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