HTML editor: does everyone need to be on the same page?

["didjit ***" <didjit_ -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Hello,

I am working on a project where the project lead is obsessive about making 
all of the writers involved use a specific HTML editor.  While I am flexible 
about the tools that I use, the tool about which this project lead is 
obsessive, requires me to use an operating system I'd rather not.  Hint: 
it's a Microsoft product. I don't have any problems with Windows, but if I 
can just abide by a set of coding guidelines that will ensure my HTML is up 
to spec, do I really need to switch operating systems?


Would you all venture to say that if we are all supplying HTML as the source 
it is the quality of the HTML source that I deliver that needs to be 
accurate, and this does not have anything to do with the editor that is 
used?

Does anyone know of, or possibly fathom, a reason that one particular HTML 
editor needs to be used in a collaborative project?  I for one, think that 
the WYSIWYG editors just add garbage and detract from the cleanlines of the 
source.  If I can write code in LPEX or Notepad or whatever, shouldn't that 
suffice?  After all, I thought Al Gore invented the Internet so that we 
could all communicate regardless of OS.

Thanks,

didjit


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