Comments on: Word documents? Get a real job http://www.emotionalmarkup.com/2008/01/30/word-documents-get-a-real-job/ Feel the code Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:11:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: ramon http://www.emotionalmarkup.com/2008/01/30/word-documents-get-a-real-job/#comment-7 ramon Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:48:17 +0000 http://www.emotionalmarkup.com/2008/01/30/word-documents-get-a-real-job/#comment-7 Yeah, it makes so much sense to place web documentation in HTML. Particularly for code examples where what you see in the docs is what you'll get in a browser. No screenshots, no word, perfect! Even linking to the live css/images from the docs so that changes are reflected in real time. Use SVN and you've nearly got a decent system. And besides, any standard is better than none. ;) Yeah, it makes so much sense to place web documentation in HTML. Particularly for code examples where what you see in the docs is what you’ll get in a browser. No screenshots, no word, perfect! Even linking to the live css/images from the docs so that changes are reflected in real time. Use SVN and you’ve nearly got a decent system.

And besides, any standard is better than none. ;)

]]> By: Ben Buchanan http://www.emotionalmarkup.com/2008/01/30/word-documents-get-a-real-job/#comment-4 Ben Buchanan Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:24:41 +0000 http://www.emotionalmarkup.com/2008/01/30/word-documents-get-a-real-job/#comment-4 I often use HTML in place of word documents, especially for web documentation. Frankly a good HTML document is much easier to create than a good word doc! Dreamweaver handles headings really well, Word fucks them up regularly. IE's local content/script freakouts actually prevented us putting an HTML-indstead-of-word document into general circulation back at Griffith. We encoded the logo and embedded it in Javascript, worked a treat except in bloody IE! It was a self-contained document complete with corporate branding. I often use HTML in place of word documents, especially for web documentation. Frankly a good HTML document is much easier to create than a good word doc! Dreamweaver handles headings really well, Word fucks them up regularly.

IE’s local content/script freakouts actually prevented us putting an HTML-indstead-of-word document into general circulation back at Griffith. We encoded the logo and embedded it in Javascript, worked a treat except in bloody IE! It was a self-contained document complete with corporate branding.

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