Re: [libreoffice-design] export HTML

I'm sure lot of people use it. In my previous job, we made every online
documentation like this (with WORD), I didn't achieve to made them
understand a wiki would be better, for design, usability,
maintainability... This function is far from perfect but I'm sure it's used
a lot. Then the choice between writer.IE.Netscape isn't useful at all for
me...

Kévin

2012/11/5 Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>

>  On 11/05/2012 08:18 AM, Kévin PEIGNOT wrote:
>
> Hi Rob, Jay
>
> That's right, HTML export produce very, very bad HTML product (just try to
> export a white page...) and that exporting styles to a separated CSS file
> (or at list a separated section) would be better. Then according this
> option, I added this one in the whiteboard
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Analyses/Global_Options#Load.2FSave
>
> Kévin
>
> I agree that exporting to html is not a very useful option partly because
> it does not (can not?) produce easily maintainable html code. The fact the
> code probably works is less important than that maintaining/editing the
> code is very difficult.
>
> Should we ask on the users list if anyone uses export to html and if so
> what is their opinion?
>
> Jay
>
>
> 2012/11/5 Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
>
> > On 11/04/2012 04:14 PM, Rob Snelders wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > The export-option in the options-dialog -> Load/Save ->
> > > HTML-compatibility states that you can save for LibreOffice Writer,
> > > Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Looking at the code that states
> > > Netscape 4-compatibility.
> > > But has this still any value? As the browsers are for basic HTML
> > > compatible for some years. I think that the Netscape output also works in
> > > Internet Explorer.
> > > If it still has value then the name netscape navigator should change as
> > > less and less people know what Netscape is.
> > >
> > > This bug triggerd the question:
> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56726
> > >
> > > --
> > > Greetings,
> > > Rob Snelders
> > >
> > >  Rob,
> >
> > > From the few times I exported as html, I noticed the html produced
> > appeared to be fairly standard html 4.01. The main problem I noticed is
> > that all the styles are embedded in the html. Note, I believe this is legal
> > html, if now considered bad practice The export modules do not produce a
> > CSS page. This makes the resulting html, IMHO, very difficult to maintain.
> >
> > You can check your html at http://validator.w3.org/
> >
> > I find I prefer to save the text as txt file then cut and then directly
> > create the html page(s) and CSS pages I need.
> >
> > --
> > Jay Lozier
> > jslozier@gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
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