- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:36:10 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
- cc: ewitness - Ben Fowler <bfowler@ewitness.co.uk>, "'www-validator@w3.org'" <www-validator@w3.org>
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > > The only validation error that you are likely to see in > > Dreamweaver is missing ALT attributes. So it is not really > > that disturbing. > > If only that were true; by default, DW doesn't even emit a DOCTYPE > directive, throws away trailing slashes in relative URLs, and is > capable of generating the most appalling code (e.g., <LI>s that are > not within an <OL> or <UL> context. HoTMetaL PRO is, I think, still > the only editor that generates reasonable code even in the hands of > the completely unskilled (although /it/ emits a proprietary DTD in > the default DOCTYPE, and places <IMG>s after the closing </HTML> if > the user tries to insert one in a non-permitted contex)t. It also > suppresses all syntax checking during pasting, so copy-and-paste > is a pretty sure way of getting it to generate invalid HTML. > I just wish there were an editor which offered the functionality > of Dreamweaver and/or HoTMetaL, which regarded the choice of DOCTYPE > as fundamental, and which /never/ generated invalid code. One day, > maybe... http://www.zeldman.com/lectures/standards/xhtml/tips.html includes some tips on getting dreamweaver to more standards-related stuff. L. <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
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