[WM] handling real HTML

[Wes Meltzer]

On Feb 26, 2004, at 7:08 AM, Eric S. Johansson wrote:

> I must admit I have lost all patience for editing HTML[1] in a browser 
> window and would like to use and ordinary HTML editor to create my 
> text.  Is it possible to modify Web make to ignore everything except 
> what is between the body tags?  If so, theoretically should be 
> possible to edit pages, insert them into Web make and have everything 
> come out looking just spiffy.

Rather than use a browser window, I use my text editor of choice and 
Textile (which now has support in the stock code, BTW). It's not 
WYSIWYG, but it's fairly straight-forward and doesn't involve me 
writing any HTML.

I suppose it depends on what you want, but I like being able to write 
and not have to worry significantly about formatting and <></> tag sets 
(blasphemy! heresy!). If you really, really want to see how it's going 
to look, then, yes, use Justin's scraping suggestion, but I don't know 
that that'll be particularly instructive since it won't have your CSS 
or anything anyway.

You don't have to use the edit-in-browser interface, also, keep in 
mind. You can edit ordinary plain text files (if you use Windows, 
Notepad; if you use a Mac, TextEdit or BBEdit; if you use Unix, vi or 
emacs or [insert favorite editor here]) and  then just upload the files 
to the website.

Wes :wm
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