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SQ: Have you tried the HM support forum at http://www.sq.com/index.html? I
have not had problems with HM5 and tables. Have you installed HM's latest
bug fix?
FP: Live with the FONT FACE="ARIAL" stuff. It might, technically, be bloat,
but who cares? You could CSS the font definition so all <P> fonts got arial
by default. I think you're being waaaay too picky on this.
Lots of anti-MS sentiment: Have I heard of that? Why, yes I have <g>. My
recommendation: if the product works and/or meets your need, use it.
Have you considered notepad.exe. I understand it is as compliant with the
HTML standard as you want it to be <g>.
Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: robertson e. leigh [mailto:robertsonleigh -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM]
>>>Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 9:56 AM
>>>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>>>Subject: Re: html editor questions
>>>
>>>
>>>hey
>>>im charged with evaluating WYSIWYG html editors. all seem to have
>>>problems. can anyone help me work around any of these problems:
>>>
>>>- hotmetal: this app puts an   in every cell of tables i create,
>>>causing an indent. i called tech support and they never got back to
>>>me despite 2 phone calls and an emailed example of the problem.
>>>
>>>- frontpage: i like this but two things: 1.) we write using arial
>>>font. frontpage puts the font face tag in front of nearly every line
>>>of code. bloat. doing a 'find/replace all doesnt work as it gets the
>>>fonts all screwed up. 2.) supposedly we have security issues with
>>>frontpage doc on our unix servers. also, a lot of anti-MS sentiment
>>>here. anyone hear of this?
>>>
>>>- dreamweaver: clunky and not good with CSSs. and they do the same
>>>thing with the font face tag.
>>>
>>>- netscape composer: not even a contender as it asks you to specify
>>>an html editor for working directly on the source.
>>>
>>>any help? offline im at onefourfive -at- hotBOT -dot- com
>>>
>>>thanks
>>>r
