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Re: HTML editor: does everyone need to be on the same page?
Subject:Re: HTML editor: does everyone need to be on the same page? From:"Dick Margulis" <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:16:53 -0400
didjit,
The tool that the project manager is obsessing over is more than an HTML editor. It also provides a level of source control (check-in/check-out, permissions, etc.) that perhaps helps the PM feel more secure and therefore sleep better at night, as well as other, um, features that appeal to some people for reasons that are between them and their therapists. So the tradeoff is that you can put up with a grumpy tool or put up with a grumpy boss. My recommendation is that you figure out how to work with the tool in question in a way that generates the least possible pain for both you and the tool. If it becomes really obstreperous you can always sneak the html out after hours and get it drunk with your favorite text editor, then sneak it back in before the guard wakes up.
>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?
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