HTML editor: does everyone need to be on the same page?

Subject: HTML editor: does everyone need to be on the same page?
From: "didjit ***" <didjit_ -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 17:35:18 +0000

Hello,

I am working on a project where the project lead is obsessive about making all of the writers involved use a specific HTML editor. While I am flexible about the tools that I use, the tool about which this project lead is obsessive, requires me to use an operating system I'd rather not. Hint: it's a Microsoft product. I don't have any problems with Windows, but if I can just abide by a set of coding guidelines that will ensure my HTML is up to spec, do I really need to switch operating systems?


Would you all venture to say that if we are all supplying HTML as the source it is the quality of the HTML source that I deliver that needs to be accurate, and this does not have anything to do with the editor that is used?

Does anyone know of, or possibly fathom, a reason that one particular HTML editor needs to be used in a collaborative project? I for one, think that the WYSIWYG editors just add garbage and detract from the cleanlines of the source. If I can write code in LPEX or Notepad or whatever, shouldn't that suffice? After all, I thought Al Gore invented the Internet so that we could all communicate regardless of OS.

Thanks,

didjit


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