Sent by John Luxford on 6 November 2003 05:05
On Wednesday, November 5, 2003, at 07:16 PM, Geoff Bowers wrote:
> More often than not Word, with the help of its users, whips up a
> cocktail of HTML dross. The best you can hope for here is a decent
> text editor that can "sweep" or "clean" out all the rubbish HTML --
> but with that may go much of your formatting.
I think in general this is actually a good thing. The formatting that
goes away are stylistic attributes like MARGIN="5pt, 4pt, 23pt, 2pt" or
CLASS="MsoDocumentHeader" type stuff, and even tags that aren't HTML at
all (like the tag <o:p> that appears in some Word output I've seen.
The formatting that remains is clean -- aka unstyled -- HTML or even
XHTML, which will then be happy to adopt the global style of the web
site.
Professional web sites should strive for consistency, and one of the
best ways is to guarantee in your CMS that all level-1 headings will
look a certain way, and all level-2 headings will look another way,
etc. To do this, you necessarily have to rid your content of MS Word's
mess.
Cheers,
Lux
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