Re: Hand-coding HTML

Mike Schinkel wrote:

> If it can be hand-coded then tools can certainly be created for HTML.

With my Nvu implementor's hat on, this is *clearly* a false assertion.

Nested lists are trivial to hand-code. And trust me, they are incredibly
painful and expensive to implement in a wysiwyg editor allowing
unconstrained text selection.
ins and del elements are trivial to hand-code, they're almost impossible
to implement in a wysiwyg editor because of their dual inline/block
state.
I have more examples of that kind.

Please, please, all : simple to specify does *NOT* mean easy to
implement.

</Daniel>

Received on Sunday, 29 April 2007 00:42:08 UTC