Hello Mike, Friday, March 14, 2003, 4:20:00 PM, you wrote:
MA> Hi Pete, MA> Thursday, March 13, 2003, 4:30:09 AM, you wrote: PH>> Hello Mike, MA>>> It is because (now don't laugh!) some people use Word to design their MA>>> web pages. Consequently, the link *has* to be live, otherwise it MA>>> wouldn't work. To show you how good Word web pages are, Macromedia MA>>> Dreamweaver contains a function which imports a Word web page, strips MA>>> all the junk out of it, and makes it into a proper web page ;-) PH>> Well, "all the junk" is an overstatement. It strips out about 60% and PH>> leaves a bloated but not obese web page. MA> Yeah, I've had to transfer documents from Word to a proper web MA> designer i.e Dreamweaver and it's a pain, because even when you do MA> strip the stuff out, the formatting is usually off. However, it does MA> help a lot. I've actually used it to get a web page in a condition MA> that's almost fit to be mailed as well ;-) I've switched from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice and their editor produces MUCH cleaner HTML. -- Pete Holsberg ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
