Hi Pop,
On 9/3/06 8:37 AM, "Pop`" wrote:
Not to be a PIA, but rather to add some relevant information he
Daiya Mitchell wrote:
since Word doesn't actually build
web pages, but instead stores all the information it would need to
reconstruct a Word document from the HTML format.
Not quite: You're splitting hairs with "doesn't actually build web pages"
because it in fact does, and it saves them to disk in perfectly readable AND
edittable format by Word or any other text editor.
Right, that was sloppy writing.
Most people don't
understand, or care to understand, the arcane process by which that
is done. Word offers many features that browsers simply won't
understand/replicate.
You are misunderstanding. In HTML design mode, Word writes very capable
code, including xml, albeit pretty bloated, but again it's not intended for
the web. That said however, ALL of the major browsers read Word's code very
well, especially IE of course. In fact, the whole Office suite can write
pretty good and usable by browsers, code. There are a very few things that
the latest version of Word cannot do. What you said is just plain
inaccurate.
Actually, you missed my point, or I wasn't clear. Many people using Word
for web pages seem to expect the *Word*-specific features to transfer over
into HTML, and I'm basing this on questions posted by people on these
newsgroups. For instance, Font Scaling, Kerning, I think I've seen someone
ask about section breaks, people ask where their columns went because they
wanted side by side text.... Word offers many features that browsers simply
won't understand/replicate.
I suspect that if you use the HTML mode of Word to design webpages, what you
get is pretty much what you see. However, the impression I get (again, from
questions posted here), is that most people design their webpages-to-be in
the regular modes of Word, not in HTML mode, and that they expect the full
range of Word tools to be available to them, which is simply not the case.
PS. A quick test suggests that HTML mode does not hide such features as
columns, but that applying them to an HTML doc does nothing.
--
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