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Re: HTML editor: does everyone need to be on the same page?
Subject:Re: HTML editor: does everyone need to be on the same page? From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:43:05 -0500
And the best reason for using the Project Lead's editor of choice.....HE MAKES
THE RULES!!!! You know, the Golden Rule variant: Those that have the gold make
the rules.
I have used tools I didn't like, created help systems that sucked (let's hear it
for non-disclosure agreements!) because that was what my client wanted. We're
hired guns (whether we're there as a permanent employee or as a contract
employee) and we use the client's weapon of choice. Personal preference and 50
cents (or whatever change the vending machine demands) gets you your cold,
carbonated beverage of choice.
Jo Byrd
didjit *** wrote:
> 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.
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