Subject: Re: unsolicited advice...... From: loundy@earthlink.net (Mark Loundy) Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 11:25:21 -0800

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At 23:09 8/30/96, Andersen wrote:
>Unless I'm mistaken, Mark, you've been banging this drum for *some* time
>now, however I've yet to see one WYSIWYG editor come close to keeping up
>with developments vis a vis HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, etc. etc.  I
>speculate that there will always be room for both manual coding and WYSISYG
>(if we can call it that), until HTML disappears altogether--which it very
>well may (but I don't presume to know what will replace it).

Rick,

Depending on what you mean by "*some* time" you are mistaken. I have been
talking about this for about a month and a half, but I don't think that
I've addressed it on this list.

Microsoft Front Page, ver. 2 of Adobe Page Mill (I'm told) and similar
products are going to put direct coding out of sight for most people very
quickly. But just as there are still folks who dip directly into Postscript
code, there will still be a need for direct knowledge of HTML.

The main obstacle to this is the uncertainty of how a given tag will
manifest itself for the user. But the market is forcing a resolution to
that.

The concept of HTML as a page mark-up language rather than a layout
language is fading rapidly. The tug of war between those who contend that
HTML is not a layout language and the rest of the world is more a religious
difference than a practical one. The non-believers are driving the bus.

Mark Loundy
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