Re: Why extra comments in save as html?

julian@tele.com
Wed, 25 Aug 1999 08:44:51 -0500


On 1999-08-25 at 06:14, Ed Matthews (g8orade@yahoo.com) wrote:

> Why when I save as html does AbiWord insert the comment about This was
> created with AbiWord, etc.?
>
> If I want to use Abi as a text editor to build pages, I'm just going to
> have to delete that message from every page before I actually publish
> them.
>
> It's not just abi, all the word-processors I've seen do this (including
> Netscape's composer, and it makes the save as .html option much less
> attractive.

Yes, they all do it. I have even seen comments mentioning
that a page was composed with vii (obviously hand inserted).

Which reminds me, whenever I use Applix, Netscape
Composer etc. I always open the file with vi and clean it up -
remove comments and all the extraneous <font> tags. Most machine
made HTML could do with a clean up. Doing this will greatly
reduce file size and therefore download time. Some
composers/editors are worse than others in this respect. Looking
at HTML source on the web can be illuminating.

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