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From: Nick Liu <nickliu@uniqsite.com>
To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
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Subject: Re: Web Authoring Tools 
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On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, John Fieber wrote:

> 
> [cough, sputter, gag, cough, choke, choke...]
> 
> Not if you want to generate anything resembling HTML.
> 
> Gold can't even get do the right thing with basic HTML elements
> elements whose syntax and semantics were nailed down at the
> beginning of (www) time and haven't changed since.
> 
> WYSIWYG and SGML is somewhat of a contradiction in terms, but I
> maintain there is *some* utility of a WYSYWYG approach with
> respect to HTML, particularly in the context of tables.  However,
> stay away from NS Gold--it only generates NML (Netscape Markup
> Language).
> 
> -john
> 


I agree with you.