On Jul 1, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Tim wrote:
Re: your new action I’ll take a look Walter. Cheers.
“… that the and tags are “are mandatory” should have read that “the table head and body section tags are both mandatory”.
It is very disappointing. Cannot understand why these can’t be inserted using markup or some other method. I’m assuming therefore that you can’t edit FW’s (outputted?) HTML?
Oh you can certainly do that. In the Inspector, when you have a table cell selected, you will see a Markup and Extend buttons in one of the tabs (can’t recall off the top of my head). Markus allows you to add raw code before and after the cell or the entire row. You could totally hand-edit the table using the Inspector to add these. My Action just automates that process for you.
As far as editing the HTML output from Freeway, sure, you can do that, but the next time you publish, Freeway will overwrite your changes. That’s because inside of Freeway, the document model is entirely devoid of any HTML at all. It’s an object model, of greater precision than HTML is capable of expressing.
Think back to DTP terms. If you have a QuarkXPress document, that same document can print to a dot-matrix ImageWriter, a LaserWriter (vintage, naturally, and 300ppi), a 600ppi laser printer, a paper output imagesetter 2,700 ppi, or a film imagesetter 9,600 ppi. Same document. At each level of fineness, the same document results in an extraordinarily higher level of output precision. That’s because the internal resolution is for all intents and purposes infinite, and output consists of “dumbing down” that perfect mathematical model to whatever resolution the output device is capable of displaying.
Now realize that Freeway was once a desktop publishing application called Uniqorn, and if Apple hadn’t killed QuickDraw GX, we might still be using it today (it was extraordinary for its time). But then, if Apple hadn’t killed QuickDraw GX, it’s possible that Softpress might never have extracted Uniqorn’s layout engine and used it to make these new-fangled things called Web pages, in this hard-scrabble markup language named HTML, that is way less expressive than PostScript or PDF.
Walter
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