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Originally Posted by Dean
And you write all your code in assembly language???
Human friendly "development" tools will always make bigger, uglier "code" that will often be significantly less intelligible when viewed at the lowest level.
But that is the price for improved "time to market" and other buzz word marketing terms.
Get over it. "save as web page" works even if you don't care for the underlying code.
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Word is *not* a "human friendly development tool". Get Dreamweaver or something if you want an editor for html. Word is a huge PITA for editing with, and generated terrible code that doesn't look anything like it's supposed to!
If I "save as web page" and it doesn't look the way the editor previewed it, then
it doesn't work.
As far as real RAD and code generation tools... you obviously haven't coded anything in the last 10 years... Good tools generated good code, that at the lowest level is extremely clear and matches best practices for software coding. Bloat is there in the code because it makes it easier to maintain the code, but code is *compiled into machine language*, which removes the bloat. A good compiler will turn long-winded code into the same machine language as if I had written it in assembly language.
HTML IS NOT CODE... it's not compiled, you have to transfer *all* the data to the client, so the browser can interpret it. There's a reason your old Reno SCCA site took forever to download (aside from the lack of hardware it's running on)... your index file was *massive*, 50% of which was unnecessary CRLFs, because you kept editing it in friggen Word.
If your STi was running on 3 cylinders, it's still running, but it's not working as it was intended. As an IT administrator, shame on you for not knowing the difference between beneficial high-level tools and bloated crappy code. Just because something comes up in a browser doesn't mean it's working right.