They all suck. I've seen HoTaMaLe, WebWorks, and a few others - NOT ONE
PRODUCES VALID HTML! Evey last one produces HTML with some major errors.
I have some very simple rules for our web - the Cardinal Rule that I refuse
to bend on is - If the HTML does not validate against a standard DTD, it
does not go up on the web.
HoTaMaLe is far worse then WebWorks, after testing it I refuse to even let
it be considered.
WebWorks is actually fairly decent, but the output still needs a human to
go and do line by line fixes. It makes some serious mistakes, like:
<A NAME="fubar"><P>This is some <A HREF="link.html">text</A></P></A>
1. You absolutely, positively are not allowed to nest ANCHOR tags. Doing
that is one of the worst errors you can make in HTML.
2. Very few tags are legal inside an Anchor - and none of them are block
level tags. In this example the <P> implicitly closes the first <A> -
making an empty anchor - another mortal sin in HTML. On the browsers
that won't do the implicit close (themselves not to spec) you get the
nested ANCHORS - which is worse.
Another common thing is
<A NAME="fubar"></A>
This is a perfectly legal HTML construct - it has open and closing tags and
will validate. HOWEVER, many major browsers will *ignore* Anchors that are
empty. So if you are designing pages and what them to be at all useful, you
must avoid this construct at all costs. ANCHORS *must* have content to
be reliable.
This isn't the only thing they do. Sometimes they product output like
<TABLE width=80%>
That is invalid - special characters *must* be quoted in attributes. It
should be
<TABLE width="80%">
Not having the quotes can break systems that parse according to the DTD.
There is a lot more to it of course....
-MZ
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