- From: Tina Marie Holmboe <tina@elfi.elfi.org>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 22:14:38 +0100
- To: Kathleen Anderson <kathleen.anderson@po.state.ct.us>, jim@jimthatcher.com, David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:06:37PM -0500, Kathleen Anderson wrote: > In FrontPage 2000, you can set the content-type meta tag by adding it to the > normal.htm template used for all new pages. See: > http://www.cmac.state.ct.us/access/tutorials/defaultdoctype.htm Fair enough - but my question was mostly one of curiosity: why doesn't FP (any version) simply ask when opening a new document (a) which DOCTYPE and (b) which document encoding; defaulting to HTML 4.01 and iso-8859-1 if nothing is supplied ? That would make many documents created by novice writers immensly more robust; and is - after all - such small things to add. Professional authors who employ FP (is there such a beast ? ;) would after all know this, but many webpages are written by the enthusiasts who are professionals in *other* fields. -- - Tina
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