Front Page Fussy

[Andrew Plato <intrepid_es -at- YAHOO -dot- COM>]

The "FrontPage is not pure HTML" rhetoric is total bulls**t. People
have been saying this for years and it simply is not true.

Front Page absolutely uses standard HTML tags.  The ONLY derivation
from "standard HTML", whatever the hell that is, is the FrontPage
extensions.  If you don't use the FP Extensions, then the HTML
generated is just as "pure" as anything out of HomeBlow or any of the
other HTML generators.

If you are using a server with the FP extensions, they are very useful.

Having used FP to generate tons of web sites, it is a fine tool. In
fact, I used Front Page to build an HTML based help system for the Be
Operating System (BeOS). The web browser for BeOS is about as fussy as
they come. FP did a fine job.

Nevertheless, like ALL web page tools, it does require knowing HTML.

Just because the box says Microsoft does not mean the product is
inferior.

--"Steven J. Owens" <puff -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> wrote:
>
> Robert Maxey writes:
>
> > >I'm sure that's the cause of all trouble: Microsoft Frontpage, the
> > >garbaging editor...
> > >You can compose nice-looking pages with it, but this editor does
> > >definitely not follow the recognized HTML standards for
compatible use;
> > >the main concern for tech-writing.
> >
> > What standard does FP not follow?
>
>      What standard *does* it follow? :-)
>
>      Seriously, though, FP does not follow standard practice in how it
> uses HTML and how it lays out pages.  HTML is a language that, like
> english, can be used to express the same thing in different ways.
> Front Page seems to find the most awkward way to express such things.
> Part of this is that Front Page tries to map Word's internal tag
> format to HTML, which is definitely not a one-to-one mapping.  The
> rest of it seems to be simply Microsoft attitude.
>
> Steven J. Owens
> puff -at- netcom -dot- com
>
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