RE: Word to HTML

DHTML and SHTML aren't new forms of HTML.  DHTML is Dynamic HTML.  still
HTML, just built dynamically with CGI, Scripts, SSI, etc.

SHTML is an HTML page that uses a SSI, whether that SSI is another static
HTML section or HTML created by CGI.  

Both are still HTML.  No new tags or anything to worry about.

Bradley V. Stone
BVS/Tools
http://www.bvstools.com





> -----Original Message-----
> From: boothm@earth.goddard.edu [mailto:boothm@earth.goddard.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 5:48 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Word to HTML
> 
> 
> We don't disagree Brad.  Once it's in true HTML it is pretty 
> much the same 
> everywhere.  Of course now we have SHTML, DHTML, etc.
> 
> But using the "Save As" option in Word does not assure that 
> the HTML will 
> be faithfully written.  For a demonstration of the problems 
> that surface, 
> write  a Word document, save it as HTML, restore it to Word, 
> and save it. 
> Do that cycle a few times and compare your original 
> rendition.  Perhaps 
> Word performs better now, but a year or two ago the results 
> were horrible.
> 
> So far as the point I was trying to get across:  My point is 
> unchanged. 
> Writing HTML for the web is not as straight-forward as it 
> looks at first 
> glance.  There are a whole lot of gotcha's with it.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
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> Subject:        RE: Word to HTML
> 
> --snip--
> > Be cautioned though that using a proprietary format like Word 
> > will result 
> > in gorgeous pages for the boss's desk top machine running 
> > your company 
> > suite of software, but web users are not at all unanimous in 
> > having the 
> > same suite as your office has.  So, in someone else's office 
> > you may get 
> > some really horrid and garish renditions of your pages.
> --snip--
> 
> I'd have to disagree with you here, or assume that you were 
> just trying to
> get a point across.  HTML is a standard developed not by 
> Mircrosoft.  Once
> it's in HTML, it will be 98% standard across browsers.  The 
> HTML keywords
> are not different from platform to platform.  If they were, 
> everyone's 
> page
> who used FrontPage would be wacky except for people running IE.
> 
> 
> 
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