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Re: html editors

From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:17:18 +0000 (GMT)
To: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.43.0202072315290.2948-100000@phaestos.ee.surrey.ac.uk>
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Nick Kew wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Lloyd Wood wrote:
>
> > includes some tips on getting dreamweaver to more standards-related
> > stuff.
>
> Is dreamweaver marketed as a product for experts only?

I've no idea. I've never used it.

Go rant your rhetoric at dreamweaver.

L.

> If not, then the fact that a trained user can get it to produce something
> standards-compliant is scarcely relevant.  It should produce good markup
> by default, and require additional effort on the part of the user to
> do otherwise (if indeed it permits that at all).
>
> What about the naive user with no technical knowledge?  Are they warned
> that it is an unsuitable product?  Or are they misled?
>
> --
> Nick Kew
>
> Site Valet - the mark of Quality on the Web.
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>
>
>

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