Re: Writing a GREAT HTML editor!

> Adam Thodey <athodey@engin.umich.edu> spake thus:
> 
> > Make it a WYMIWYG type program (What you MEAN is what you get!!) :)
> 
> There I agree.  I'd say, start with SGML validation.  Look at James Clark's
> SGML parser (nsgmls) for a start.

 I took a course in structured documentation this year, and one of the speakers
 on SGML had a great term for the kind of editor they used.  Not "What You
 See is What You Get", since what you get depends on the fonts/window size/
 includes/excludes that the user was useing.  Rather, it was "What You See is
 No Surprise".


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