[sclug] Simple WYSIWYG HTML editor?

[David Given]

Adam Trickett wrote:
[...]
> If you are using in-line styles then you are doing it very wrong. In-line 
> styles are what you get from automated tools, and a clear sign of poor 
> markup. Build you pages using only structural HTML, you are allowed the odd 
> class and id attribute, then use an external style sheet to add all the 
> eye-candy.

Yes, that's what I used to think... until I discovered that the CSS 
layout algorithm is, ahem, rather simplistic and only works left-right 
top-bottom. Which means that you can't put your variable sized header 
bar after your body text in the HTML file, even though it's far more 
useable that way for non-CSS readers.

In other words, implementation details of your CSS govern the layout and 
structure of your HTML.

And if anyone can come up with a way of using CSS to say 'I want this 
column to be wide enough to contain this string without wrapping it, but 
no wider', or 'I want this box to be the same size as that box', I will 
be a happy man.

-- 
David Given
dg at cowlark.com