Re: [off-topic] Web "designers" (was: ada to C++ translation)

[Gary Scott <scottg@flash.net>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message news:<3C8912D0.753573DF@despammed.com>...
> > > it hits the 35 error limit quite quickly. I do wish web page authors
> > > would show a wee bit of professionalism and start validating their
> > > sources before publishing them. I just don't understand how people in
> >
> > By an overwhelming majority, web pages, both professional and amateur,
> > are created either "on-the-fly" or by WYSIWYG editors.  In both styles,
> > almost always the tools that generate the so-called HTML are designed
> > and coded (or just coded) by people who have no more clue about HTML
> > than the users of the tools.  And in many cases, by people who don't
> 
> I can certianly vouch that the current version of FrontPage produces
> invalid HTML. So does the last version of the Mozilla Composer that I
> tried.

At one time, there were significant incompatibilities in the area of
"dynamic" HTML, with MS and NS going in very different directions.  NS 6
and IE 5 now appear to be mostly on the same page in that area with both
being more compatible with "standard" than before.

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