Pages to HTML Feb12 '05
I was curious about Pages export to HTML feature. I wanted to see if it produced valid and well–formed code.
It turns out many things (about the HTML) are pretty clean. It’s not nearly as bad as Word’s export to HTML feature – which produces nested tables, superfluous font tags, etc.
The first thing I noticed when looking at the source of the page is there is no DOCTYPE – BUT... the first element DOES have the XML Namespace attribute, which is good:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
The Content–type is declared as UTF-8, which is also good.
The rest of the document seems very clean and uncluttered. The only thing that strikes me is the constant use of inline styles. Practically every paragraph has something like this applied:
<p style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; visibility: hidden;">
Of course, by using CSS, there is more control over the appearance, but littering the inline styles everywhere is no better a practice than using <font> tags everywhere.
Also, I only exported a simple, five line text document from Pages. I may try to export something more involved, with pictures and lists.
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