HTML (was Re: More on fP 6.0 features)

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
[...]
> I, like you, write all my HTML in vi.

I still get strange looks when people ask me what I use to write web
pages, and I tell them "vi".  (I guess they're expecting me to say
"FrontPage" or one of those other "web design" programs.)

[...]
> The only time I've written -any- version of HTML in anything except vi was
> when I tested Word's ability to do it (hated it), HotDog Pro (hated it),
> and when I've used emacs instead of vi. :) I've tested some others over the
> years.  I've never, ever liked a visual HTML editor.  They usually write
> incredibly bloated HTML, and I don't like the lack of complete control
> I'm afforded by doing it manually.

I used either HoTMetaL or HotDog Pro when I was first learning HTML, but
just as a way to get a "real life" example.  For example, "how does one
make a 3-by-3 table?"  Once I saw the table/tr/td code that they generated,
I then wrote my own using vi and didn't need them again.

[...]
> Some may not believe this, but GUI HTML authoring tools actually -slow me
> down-.  I've had people fire up FrontPage to create something for debugging
> purposes while on the phone and I've finished before they had a chance
> to get very far, and already been testing the CGI for which the form was
> designed to be a front end.  I kid you not.

It doesn't surprise me.  You probably had half of it written while the
FrontPage splash screen was still up.  ;-)

> Maybe it's my typing speed.  Could be all that mouse/keyboad/mouse/keyboard
> they have you do in GUI design tools.  Terribly slow by comparison for me.

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