- From: Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:19:50 -0400
- To: "'Neil Soiffer'" <Neils@dessci.com>, "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "'Bruce Miller'" <bruce.miller@nist.gov>, "'Sam Ruby'" <rubys@us.ibm.com>, "'Robert Miner'" <robertm@dessci.com>, "'Henri Sivonen'" <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "'David Carlisle'" <davidc@nag.co.uk>, <public-html@w3.org>, <www-math@w3.org>
> My experience has been that many pages are in fact hand-authored, either > directly in a text editor, or through CMS systems that provide raw HTML > editors, or through templates that are hand edited. I do not think we can > forgo addressing the needs of hand-authoring content creators. The simple fact is, these CMS HTML editor widgets (like TinyMCE and FSCK) were developed well into the HTML 4 era, yet they use <b> and <i> all over the place from what I have seen. There is a huge portion of people performing hand editing are still using the <font> tag, despite trying to mark their page as strict HTML 4 (their editor stuck the doctype in, then they hand mangled the code with the "help" of some tutorial found online and written in 1995). In a nutshell, the people who care about being compliant work hard to do it, and everyone else does whatever is easiest. Therefore, we need to make the spec itself the easiest way to do things. J.Ja
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