FRONTPAGE is stupid

2006-09-15

in FRONTPAGE, when I edit a page directly on my computer , i can remove the height and width properties inside an img tag...

but when im directly on the web , even if i delete these properties (width and height) , i save the page, close it and when i re-open it , I can see that frontpage always rewrite the img dimensions without asking me to.

is there a way to prevent that without using [web component - advanced - html] wich is a pretty stupid thing because it makes frontpage **** a big chunck of code in front of all my images tags wich im have now way of beeing sure if they are beeing understood by all browsers.

I JUST DONT WANT ANY HEIGHT NOR WIDTH FOR MY IMG.

i know they awnser is use another software than frontpage , but where i work they can only use that to edit websites. and i have a lot of find & replace to do ....

plz help me

Tcoz · 2006-09-15 #2

Frontpage was notoriously evil for altering your html. The tool is in no way meant for hand-editing HTML, the idea of the tool was to completely abstract the HTML from the page designer.

A good idea, in theory. A poor idea in practice, since HTML always requires massaging of some kind or another.

You would be MUCH (much) better off either using Dreamweaver. or downloading the Visual Studio Express Web Developer edition (which is free...it's basically the VS.Net HTML and ASP.Net authoring tool. I use it all the time at client sites so I don't have to install my full and licensed version of VS.Net to create webservices and whatnot. The HTML editor is decent).

Abandon Frontpage if you want to deal with your HTML. Later versions of it did supposedly allow you to prevent it from altering your HTML, but I mean if you have to TELL the tool NOT to alter your code, the tool suxxor (you should only tell the tool TO do it, if you want).

Trivia for you old nuts...where was frontpage acquired from and what was it originally called (surprise surprise it is not an original MS product).

Silver_S · 2006-09-15 #3

if it's about price, try using a free html editor like TSW WebCoder:
http://www.pro.tsware.net/

Tcoz · 2006-09-15 #4

The VS.Net Web Developer Express Edition is free, and fully featured; the express editions (C#, VB.Net, Web Dev) are surprisingly powerful and great tools for the price (free!).

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	Tcoz	2006-09-15 #2
	Frontpage was notoriously evil for altering your html. The tool is in no way meant for hand-editing HTML, the idea of the tool was to completely abstract the HTML from the page designer. A good idea, in theory. A poor idea in practice, since HTML always requires massaging of some kind or another. You would be MUCH (much) better off either using Dreamweaver. or downloading the Visual Studio Express Web Developer edition (which is free...it's basically the VS.Net HTML and ASP.Net authoring tool. I use it all the time at client sites so I don't have to install my full and licensed version of VS.Net to create webservices and whatnot. The HTML editor is decent). Abandon Frontpage if you want to deal with your HTML. Later versions of it did supposedly allow you to prevent it from altering your HTML, but I mean if you have to TELL the tool NOT to alter your code, the tool suxxor (you should only tell the tool TO do it, if you want). Trivia for you old nuts...where was frontpage acquired from and what was it originally called (surprise surprise it is not an original MS product).

	Silver_S 1 Blog Entries	2006-09-15 #3
	if it's about price, try using a free html editor like TSW WebCoder: http://www.pro.tsware.net/

	Tcoz	2006-09-15 #4
	The VS.Net Web Developer Express Edition is free, and fully featured; the express editions (C#, VB.Net, Web Dev) are surprisingly powerful and great tools for the price (free!).