- From: Philip & Le Khanh <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 11:14:48 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
David Woolley wrote: > > Philip & Le Khanh wrote: > >> Microsoft Word is a text editor. We are discussing an HTML editor, >> which is a totally different kettle of fish, as I'm sure you'd >> agree. > > Microsoft Word is a lot more than a text editor. It has had styles, > allowing semantic markup, for more than 15 years. The styles even give > benefits to people who use them that are not common in web browsers, > like automatic table of contents generation and automatic heading > numbering. OK, perhaps "text editor" was a little harsh. But it is used almost exclusively to prepare a document for print. Those using it rarely if ever consider as they write how their words might appear were the output medium to be anything other than a sheet of paper. HTML writers, on the other hand, (at least, the more professional ones), mark up their text such that it can map to /any/ medium, not just to a computer screen or a sheet of paper. Thus there is (I would argue) a fundamentally different paradigm at work when one (a) uses Microsoft Word, and (b) one uses an HTML editor. Philip Taylor
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