- From: Kathleen Anderson <kathleen.anderson@po.state.ct.us>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:23:28 -0500
- To: Tina Marie Holmboe <tina@elfi.elfi.org>
- CC: jim@jimthatcher.com, David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Tina Marie Holmboe wrote: > > 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 ? I would also ask why FP doesn't ask the author what alt text they want for an image when they insert a picture into a page. It can't be that difficult - they have another wizard in FP (for databases) that walks you through the 'insert' process step-by-step, promting you for all sorts of things the wizard needs to work. > 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. I believe that FP97 used to put a DOCTYPE in; when FP98 came out, that feature was removed. > -- > - Tina -- Kathleen Anderson, Webmaster Office of the State Comptroller 55 Elm Street Hartford, Connecticut 06106 e-mail: kathleen.anderson@po.state.ct.us URL: http://www.osc.state.ct.us/
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