Hi John:
Really, there are no drawbacks.
The purists rattle their gums for an eternity on this. Some of their
arguments were valid, many years ago.
In 2008: the load time of the page will improve from about half a second to
about a quarter of a second (i.e. Too small to notice: the browser will take
twice that long to display the page). That's for broadband users.
For someone on dialup, the load time will go from about 5 seconds to about
2.5 seconds. Slightly less if you use advanced techniques.
In the old days, very primitive browsers might be unable to display the
complex code involved. These days, the code Word writes is the same as the
majority of large commercial websites use, and the modern browsers are not
only expecting it, they prefer it.
On thing you might want to do is enable Word>Preferences>Remove personally
identifiable information from this file on save". This removes anything
containing your name from the HTML, just in case you would rather people do
not know who published your pages or how. I don't bother: my name is at the
top of the article anyway
The only DIS-advantage I can think of, is that Word makes it a little more
complex to use external style sheets. If you ever need to know, ask me:
it's two extra steps when you publish: take you about three extra seconds
per page.
But there's a benefit to the way Word does it: Each page it produces is
fully independent. A change to any of the other pages on your site will not
affect the current page. Once you start using external style sheets, you
have to carefully track the effect of any changes: you can render your
entire side unreadable with a one-line code change
Cheers
Been playing with it and I think it works okay as an HTML editor. It cant
upload, but I use Fetch for that anyways.
I am not doing anything super fancy anyways, other than writing outlines,
and articles on my website (
www.cerm.info).
Refer to these documents.
http://www.cerm.info/bible_studies/Theological/limited_atonement.htm
http://www.cerm.info/bible_studies/Topical/jesus_traditionalism.htm
Both created PURE in Word 2004 and I have edited them since. Check out the
HTML code.
But I do have one question.
Besides the HTML addicts what are the drawbacks to having such extra HTML
code in the source of na document?
John
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