OT: HTML queries (was Re: PDF datasheets)

[Ethan Dicks]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 24, 2008, at 9:35 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>> > I guess that "modern" HTML has evolved to the point where one MUST
>> > use an HTML generating program, and no more tampering with the raw HTML;
>> > just as "nobody" writes Postscript.
>>
>>    Huh?  Hogwash.
>
> I use a very modern HTML editor. It is called vi.

Mine's more modern... I use vim.  ;-)

Seriously, though, not counting code-generated HTML (usually written
in Perl, but there are a few exceptions to that), I think 90% of  my
HTML has been written with some flavor of vi.  The remaining 10% would
have been done in emacs.  I have more than a few HTML docs that are
13-14 years old.

In the small chance that the OP wasn't just trolling, I write all of
my pages in raw HTML, but I concede that my experiences are not
applicable to the other 99% of webpage builders who have never written
tag manually in their life (but I also have written more than one
utility that emits raw PostScript, specifically to get
machine-generated columnar text for sticky labels and signs).

-ethan