- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 14:12:43 +0000
- To: ewitness - Ben Fowler <bfowler@ewitness.co.uk>
- CC: "'www-validator@w3.org'" <www-validator@w3.org>
> The only validation error that you are likely to see in > Dreamweaver is missing ALT attributes. So it is not really > that disturbing. If only that were true; by default, DW doesn't even emit a DOCTYPE directive, throws away trailing slashes in relative URLs, and is capable of generating the most appalling code (e.g., <LI>s that are not within an <OL> or <UL> context. HoTMetaL PRO is, I think, still the only editor that generates reasonable code even in the hands of the completely unskilled (although /it/ emits a proprietary DTD in the default DOCTYPE, and places <IMG>s after the closing </HTML> if the user tries to insert one in a non-permitted contex)t. It also suppresses all syntax checking during pasting, so copy-and-paste is a pretty sure way of getting it to generate invalid HTML. I just wish there were an editor which offered the functionality of Dreamweaver and/or HoTMetaL, which regarded the choice of DOCTYPE as fundamental, and which /never/ generated invalid code. One day, maybe... Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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