Re: Learing HTML (was: Branden Hall. FLASH: A solution to zipped files on Mac's!)

[Richard Forgo]

I've found that Dreamweaver is a fine WYSIWYG editor that keeps the added "glorp" to a minimum. And it's being used by a lot of serious Web developers. But Angel is right, I always seem to find myself in Notepad (for us PC users).

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On Tue, 05 Jan 1999 14:36:32   Kenneth C. Sherwood wrote:

>Angelique Gulermovich Epstein wrote:

>

>> It's kind of funny to see people so worried about learning HTML on a list

>> devoted to a fairly difficult app like FLASH.  Don't be afraid of it; you

>> can pickup a fair working knowledge of HTML very quickly.  Just be sure to

>> start with *basics*, don't jump feet first into cascading style sheets or

>> DHTML. (The Visual Quickstart Guide is a good place to start.)  And don't

>> try learning HTML within a WYSIWYG editor.  Use a text editor.

>>

>> Once you know even a little HTML, the best tool (I'm assuming you're on a

>> Mac from the discussion) is BBEdit.  (You can get BBEdit lite for free all

>> over the place, but it's the BBEdit you have to pay for that has the really

>> hepful HTML features.)   It is *not* a WYSIWYG editor, it's a text editor,

>> but it has all sorts of really neat functions that really help.  (When I

>> first got it it cut my HTML time in half.  Really.)

>>

>> WYSIWYG editors are just not a good idea for serious web development.  They

>> throw a lot of glorp into the code that can be a big problem for

>> cross-browser and cross-platform compatability.  You can always generate

>> code wherever you like, though, so that you can visualize it quickly, and

>> then clean up the HTML

>>

>> Angel

>

>You forgot to mention that BBEdit has a "PageMill Cleaner" utility. So you can

>use PageMill as you wish, when appropriate, and then BBEdit will clean out the

>glorp for you.

>

>HTH.

>

>Ken

>

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