- From: Fred Bone <Fred.Bone@dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:37:28 -0000
- To: html-tidy <html-tidy@w3.org>
On 12 Feb 2002 at 7:58, ewitness - Ben Fowler wrote: > I was taking human nature into account. I suspect that many people > would run the document through tidy and call it a day. Many people > are minded to take the output of computer as 'vox dei'. I would > doubt that in the real world the results would be rigorously checked, > and I suspect that often would not be checked at all. > > In the case in point, the check might have to be done in a text editor > rather than an HTML editor. Which raises an interesting point (well, it interests me!). How *do* people use Tidy? I do a lot of what I call "consolidation": I get text from a bunch of different people and have to update various web pages with it. I paste it in with a text editor, add appropriate markup, run the result through Tidy, and then open it in a browser to check the appearance. In this mode, I can be reasonably sure of catching anything that Tidy has corrected to the "wrong" choice. I am occasionally surprised by the result: for example when I left out a leading <ol>: <p>... <li>listitem1 <li>listitem2 </ol> Tidy kindly made it a UL for me! I wouldn't dream of accepting Tidy's (or anyone else's!) corrections to a page without checking its appearance.
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