Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 12:13:32 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netscape gold Message-ID: <9606061613.AA15459@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960606102626.422z-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu> References: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960605205203.11119A-100000@chain.iafrica.com> <Pine.NEB.3.93.960606102626.422z-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu>
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<<On Thu, 6 Jun 1996 10:30:40 -0500 (EST), John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> said: > If you want an HTML editor for X that generates valid HTML, then you > DON'T want Netscape Gold. I've had very good results with psgml in Emacs... Just feed it the right DTD and everything works perfectly. Of course, you don't get WYSIAYG, but that's OK by me. It also has the nice feature that it is generally smart enough to do a decent job of validation on its own, so I've never had the need to find a validator and make it work. It is also very helpful in normalizing old (pre-standardization) HTML into something that that works under the current specifications. > It makes numerous elementary violations of all published > "standards". I'm not talking about Netscape extensions, I'm talking > about basic volations with basic elements that have been around > since HTML 1. Inexcusable things like putting an <H1> inside a > <UL>. Whatever made you think Netscape cared about obeying standards? -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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