[Sigia-l] Word HTML - money were my mouth is (was When Shoulda Manual be Web-based?)

[Boniface Lau]

> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On
> Behalf Of Thomas Vander Wal
> 
>  
> On 2/28/03 8:15 PM, "Boniface Lau" <boniface_lau at compuserve.com> wrote:
[...]
> > Mind you, web browsers do not require web pages with DTD
> > declaration.  Unless Word acted up, Internet Explorer, Netscape
> > Navigator, and Opera have no problem with the Word-produced HTML.
> 
> Ah, now you are hitting on the problem with Word.  Word concerns
> itself with visual presentation.  It has done an admirable job
> building good visual presentations of the information.  A Web
> browser can show a visual presentation well, but that if far from
> being a good Web page or good (X)HTML.

The issue was NOT on whether Word produced a "good" web page or
(X)HTML.

The issue was whether Word produced a web page without HTML error.


Boniface