Re: Why extra comments in save as html?

Robin Turner (robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:59:30 +0300


Ed Matthews 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.

I always find those "Created with" comments silly. If I was going to be
honest, for some of my pages I'd have to write something like "I originally
wrote this in Word, re-saved it as .txt to get rid of the so-called
"smart-quotes", fiddled with it in Netscape Composer, then later used
gnotepad+ to rewrite some of the yucky HTML" But why would anybody want to
know this?

On the subject of the "save as html" option, _please_ keep it simple.
After years of producing weird HTML with save options and WYSIWYdon'tG
editors, I just want something which will make a reasonable guess at
headings, put in the bold and italic tags, center where necessary, and
maybe even make a stab at tables and lists. If I want anything more
flashy, I'll write the HTML myself. Abiword produces much better HTML than
Word, but it still does strange and unnecessary things, particularly with
font sizes.

Robin



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