RE: the gecko.html gibberish

> From:	love26@gorge.net [SMTP:love26@gorge.net]
> 
> JR:: "...a nice push icon and  good display  means its yet another
> authoring error ... and not Amaya This type of function would also
> appeal to surfer type who just wants to get to data without technical
> hassle...
> I think integration of tidy.exe would be win-win situation."
> 
	[DJW:]  Please no.  One of the reasons for bad HTML
	is that browsers render it as users expect.  tidy is
	designed to be used server side to take drafts, e.g. 
	from broken authoring tools, and convert them into valid
	HTML.  If everyone has tools that make bad HTML viewable,
	there is no incentive to serve good HTML in the first place,
	and every incentive to exploit every new, undocumented, browser
	feature.

	If you use Amaya as an editor, and its fixup of the page 
	is unacceptable, it would seem reasonable to run something
	like tidy separately.  However, why are you not authoring in
	Amaya in the first place?

Received on Wednesday, 12 July 2000 06:41:40 UTC