Intermediate Web Publishing

The bad news: bad HTML

Note the HTML code that was generated in our example. There are numerous bugs, notably:

  • no obvious way to set various HTML features, e.g. bgcolor.
  • failure to use the "natural" HTML constructs (e.g. H2 tags).
  • extra tags
  • use of PC-specific fonts, e.g. Arial, with no generic alternative. (better would be
    <font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">)
  • overlapping containers.

<BODY>

<B><I><FONT FACE="Arial"><P>Sample Document</P>
</B></I></FONT>

<B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE=2>
<P>Try it out!</B> It's easy!</P>

Conclusion: Word is easy to use, but you have to be careful.

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