Re: OT: HTML help


Subject: Re: OT: HTML help
From: George A. Dowding (dowdingg@math.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 29 2001 - 17:56:55 AKST


You might want to look at www.screem.org. It is not exactly WYSIWYG.
It has a DTD parser, and according to the "standards" section of their
documentation they have support for HTML 4.01.

augustus@acerbic.org writes:
>
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Scott Johnson wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a HTML composer (pref a WYSIWYG) that produces
> > verifiable HTML 4.01 Transitional (http://validator.w3.org/) code?
>
> I don't even know of any websites that pass through the validator without
> a stream of errors and/or gripes. Just for fun I ran a few through it (all
> failed)
> www.aklug.org
> theregister.co.uk
> slashdot.org
> acerbic.org (me)
> www.microsoft.com
> www.linux.org
>
> I'm a little curious as to why you would want to subject yourself to the
> kind of pain and suffering required to get your site up to spec,
> especially if it's a large and complex one.
>
> If you were starting a site from scratch, and wanted "valid" HTML I think
> your only options is to use $FAVORITE_TEXT_EDITOR and do it all by hand
> following your chosen HTML spec and validating it as you go. As far as i
> know no WYSIWYG editors output anything approaching proper HTML, but it
> has been a while since I've tried any of them.
>
> -Josh
>
>
>

-- 
Thanks,
George

dowdingg@math.uaa.alaska.edu http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~dowdingg



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