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LazyScot · 12-12-2008, 05:03 PM

I have seen such hideous HTML. On one occasion I tracked it back to someone using MS-Word, but not understanding the concept of styles, so they created what they could by setting, for instance, headers as normal text, but bold, larger etc. They then just used save as HTML. Essentially, they didn't know any better and the well-know software dumbly did the rest of the damage.

So, I wonder how much is down to "cock-up rather than conspiracy". Especially with publishers cutting corners and getting rid of some of the subbing stages that might have cleaned things up.

12-12-2008, 05:03 PM	#8
LazyScot DSil Posts: 3,201 Karma: 6895096 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Hants, UK Device: Kindle, Cybook	I have seen such hideous HTML. On one occasion I tracked it back to someone using MS-Word, but not understanding the concept of styles, so they created what they could by setting, for instance, headers as normal text, but bold, larger etc. They then just used save as HTML. Essentially, they didn't know any better and the well-know software dumbly did the rest of the damage. So, I wonder how much is down to "cock-up rather than conspiracy". Especially with publishers cutting corners and getting rid of some of the subbing stages that might have cleaned things up.