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Originally Posted by Notjohn
But then I've been writing web pages for twenty years, so I'm comfortable looking at html.
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I, too, am quite comfortable looking at html, but I think you've missed the point I was trying to make. During the final read-through, I'm looking at the visual effect of the entire page, among other things. I'm reading the text word-for-word looking for things, such as mis-placed hyphens, that don't just pop out at you in code view. In my opinion, the markup codes obscure the final result at this point. Hyphens are very easy to remove with just a tap of the backspace or delete key, without having to switch to the code view. Improperly aligned headings pop out at just a glance. It's all visual at this point after I've done all the spell checking, removed all validation errors and made sure all curly quotes match.
I try to think like the end user, who probably will never see the html markup.
FWIW, my first browsers were ViolaWWW, Cello and NCSA Mosaic on a 286 running Windows 3.1. Perhaps you remember them?