Re: Alternative to CMS Encore Pro and CityDesk using the power of Visual Web Developer

On Mar 22, 5:15 am, "Andy Dingley" <ding...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You misunderstand my point. I'm talking abotu the original site, not
the converted result. AIUI, the converter can only work with ASP.NET
source, which means it can only work for ASP.NET sites. If instead it
web-scrapes from the HTTP output of a server, then it can be used for
sites built with any technology.

Yes, it is clear ActiveConverter only works with Visual Web Developer
(ASP.NET). And no right now it is not possible to have it work with
any other technology, sorry. I know what you asking for and it sounds
like a very nice idea, maybe sometime in the future I will attempt to
create what you are asking.


Another example of what you could do would be the famous or should I
say infamous current page menu item on a menu.

This is implementable very easily with CSS. You can even do it when
the menu is a fixed include file and you thus can't simply place a
"current" class on the right menu item. (Place per-section classnames
on each menu item, and place matching classnames on the <body>
elements of each page. Rather than a single selector of "current", use
a number of more complex selectors that look for matching pairs of
classes).

Yes CSS is nice but the idea of using Visual Web Developer is that
there is a nice interface to work with not just the code. But to each
there own, I guess. Sure you could get a CSS editor with a nice
interface but Visual Web Developer offers a lot more then just a code
nice editor. But since you do not like Microsoft products, I guess it
would not matter what features Visual Web Developer offered.


I do not understand what you mean when talking about the meta tag,

<meta /> is XML syntax, not HTML

I might be wrong but I thought XHTML was the use of HTML with a more
XML standard and format so whats wrong with using the <tag /> for
ending tags?


I thought it is what determines the encoding of the webpage,

That's not my point.

Then what is your point? Is your point that I do not understand how to
use HTML as well as you probably do? I admit you are probably a better
web developer than I am.

If you sell me a web tool, then I will judge your web skills. I will
probably assume that you've used your own tool.

Ya I have used my own tool. Does not mean my web developing skills are
top notch though.

If the tool doesn't understand URL encoding, it will generate mis-
formed HTML no matter who uses it.

Can you copy and paste the code you are refering to? I am not sure
what you are talking about.

Pathological hatred of M$oft and an avoidance of anything connected
with ASP.NET. If it converted legacy Perl-based sites to static HTML,
I'd be much more interested in it.

Well, I knew it had to be something. So tell me are you typing this
conversation in Mac or Linux?

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