Le Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:30:15 +0200, Mike Schinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
a écrit:
Microsoft released Expression Web yesterday:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/expression-web/features.mspx
The narrator for their video for "Standards-based Web Sites" says "XHTML
builds upon the HTML standard that allows a larger percentage of
browsers to
properly parse and display your document."
I'm wondering if you guys seeing Expression Web as a Good Thing(tm) for
the
web, or a Bad Thing(tm) for the web?
I'll be harsh: it's a Bad Thing™.
No matter what people do, they'll never get such tools The Right Way. It's
pretty much impossible, without AI.
Lets take an example: (Adobemedia) DreamWeaver. It's one of the best (if
not the best) tool for web development, WYSIWYG editor, etc. It's slow,
bulky, and the code it generates is really bad. I do not like DIV-itis.
The code gets worse in bigger/complex sites..
Microsoft Expression Web can't be light-years ahead of DreamWeaver. It
might be better, but not much. They spend ridiculous amounts of time on
developing tools that are pretty much getting in the way of really doing a
web site The Proper Way™.
They probably even made Expression Web in such a way it really generates
valid XHTML code. It's not that hard: close the tags, properly nest the
tags, use lowercase attributes and tags, use quotes for attributes, and
forbid the use of tags and attributes not allowed by XHTML. Is the code
good? No. Invalid code can be of a higher quality.
As for the quote you've provided: I think it does confirm my harsh
comments.
I'll stick to vim/emacs/notepad/gedit/kate/whatever (currently using vim).
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