- From: Bruce Boughton <bruce@bruceboughton.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 15:24:07 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>, Simon Wiffen <simon.wiffen@sense.co.uk>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Wed, 23 May 2007 15:11:42 +0200, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) > <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote: >> Simon Wiffen wrote: >>> Whoops, meant to reply all on this >>> --- >>> Hmm well I've been working commercially for 9 years and I hand code >>> in a text editor including hand coding elements such as ampersands, >>> as do my colleagues so I wouldn't assume that this statement is >>> accurate. >> >> And the code that you and your colleagues produce is nice, >> which is good to see. Sadly you are an endangered minority ... > > What do you base that on? > > I believe HTML is so widely used that we cannot classify how it is written as being a minority, since even if it were true statistically, it would be likely that the so called minority would contain a huge number of people. It is my experience that a lot of HTML is hand-written --- some of it is well-formed and adheres to the spec and some of it doesn't. Likewise much HTML is generated, either by a program on the user's computer, such as Dreamweaver, by a web-based content management system, such as blog software, or by a web-based formatting language, such as BBCode or Textile. We need to embrace all methods of authoring code. Sadly this is what makes this group's work so complex. Bruce
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