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

[Boniface Lau]

> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On
> Behalf Of Andrew H Otwell
> 
> > RE: [Sigia-l] Word HTML - money were my mouth is (was 
> > WhenShoulda Manual be
> > Web-based?)
> 
> This thread has degenerated into a pretty uninteresting discussion
> of HTML and petty arguing. Can you guys perhaps take it off list?
> Or at least stop including such long and nested quotes from previous
> posts? Or perhaps you could stop and restate how the conversation
> relates to IA?

How it got started was someone asking whether to send Word documents
to the web. I said it would be better to send Word-produced HTML.

Then Jon Hanna replied, 'What word produces "looks" like HTML, for
about 2 seconds.' He and Thomas Vander Wal repeatedly tried, but
failed, to steer the subsequent discussion from "Word-produced HTML
without error" to "Word-produced HTML passing DTD-based validation".

Word-generated web pages do not include a DTD. That means its HTML is
not intended for DTD-based validation. Therefore, insisting on
criticizing the Word-produced HTML for not passing DTD-based
validation is unfair.

I agree with you that the discussion has little relevance to
information architecture. Thus, I am not replying to Jon Hanna or
Thomas Vander Wal.


Boniface