He was saying
that HTML *itself* only adds about 5% to plain
text....
Fair enough, I didn't realise that. I thought he was referring to the
overall size of the HTML encoded message.
....but most of
these so called HTML editors are really bad and
bloat the HTML out quite a bit.
Tell me about it. Since I haven't take the time
to sit down and learn HTML
coding yet I use FrontPage, you want to look at that for a prime example of
bloated HTML production....I've heard tales of some pages being three times
larger than they could be mentioned in the FP newsgroup. :-(
Prime example ? Well, one can name it that way ... I still do
99% of my HTML stuff in notepad - maybe not realy a world class
tool, but one get's used to it. And even the German umlauts are
not exactly a problem ü unstead of an "u isn't that hard.
Anyway, I once _had_ to use Frontpage to modify some pages
I did, and they did not only tripple in size, but also these
pages didn't render any longer correctly in some browser !=
MS-Explorer (And last but not least in my case, the code did
become completly unreadable - why 1000 times set font attributes
if I don't care for fonts at all ?)
It is still possible to do Web pages that are readable in
any browser type _and_ are still good loocking (assumed
you use an actual Lynx version :). Ok, this means that
one has to limit himself to real basic structures, and no
fancy fonting and gimmicking, and _may_ increase the size
more to 15% bigger than plain than including all the ALT
tags etc, but it's worth.
Well, I just belive I'm again part of a dieing species -
even the W3C is about to drop some principles which have
been root mechanisms of what's now the WEB.
And for the list, I would go for c), the deHTMLifier.
I'ts not that hard to programm in perl (or whatever).
As for myself, I consider HTML as readable, just it
happenes that most of the unwanted HTML stuff is done
by MS or MS-alike tools that add way more noise than
needed - so cut it off (*)
Anyway
Gruss
H.
(*) another way may be to heep the basic tags and just
remove all the optional parameters - or, maybe even better
use a HTML to Text converter.
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