alistapart.com — his article is for people who need to produce valid, standards-compliant mockups quickly, with the graphics tools they already use. This is not a production technique for people who want to get the most benefit out of (X)HTML by creating structural, semantic markup.
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gigabyteJan 23, 2007
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j3oneJan 23, 2007
I get what he is saying, but no.. thats a bad idea.imageready is a BIG no-no. Do the same thing, but use the slice tool in photoshop and export the images you will need. DO NOT EXPORT ANY CODE from Photoshop or imageready. In fact never open imageready again. The Gimp, Photoshop or Fireworks can be used to make nice clean graphical sites. Just cut images where necessary, hand code the divs (it takes less time to hand code a whole site shell, than to fix shat out css ) and make with the pretty css...Even in a fast paced production environment, where your just showcasing a "mock up" its still faster this way.
geekwithsoulJan 23, 2007
"No WYSIWYG editor is ever going to actually generate *good* code."Actually, that hasn't been true for some time. Dreamweaver actually can do quite well, thanks in part to the efforts of such organizations as the Web Standards Group [<a class="user" href="http://www.webstandards.org/].">http://www.webstandards.org/].</a> It that has a Task Force that works with Macromedia's (now Adobe's) engineers to improve standards compliance and accessibility in Dreamweaver.Can it be mis-used and create gobbledy-gook? Of course, it's just a tool. Just like the lever you could use to pull your foot out of your mouth :) However, when used correctly Dreamweaver (and other apps out there now) are perfectly capable of producing valid code. It's actually easier to have it produce lean valid code when using XHTML and CSS than back in the days of nested tables.
kazrogJan 24, 2007
Tables aren't all bad. In fact, in many layout situations, the code is cleaner than using Divs and ULs, etc. on their own. You can still use CSS and be compliant and have tables where it makes sense to from a symantic coding perspective.A lot of the reason why these so-called "Web 2.0" sites look so samey is because they've embraced the limitations of layouts without tables.Let's face it, HTML and CSS are crude at best, and we need a faster, more agile, and more modernized standard, from the ground up, if the web is ever going to move beyond where it is today.
mikehartorMay 1, 2007
Quite doubtful because they will _never_ do a really good software...
clintonbOct 23, 2007
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cvoogtMar 25, 2008
Crap portfolio? Whatever ... at least I make my living with it, and my clients and several major awards and influential entertainment industry individuals don't think it's a crap portfolio. And mind you, the article's only intended for mockups, and the code would have to be reworked by hand to get it into production.
cvoogtMar 25, 2008
Yeah, the article's meant to point out the obvious, because the HTML/CSS export of ImageReady seemed to be a feature overlooked by most people, and it was quite handy for me anyway.
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