Closed Bug 57456 Opened 24 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Evangelism - Contact HTML Editor/Tool vendors to update their products

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P1)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English US
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: hjtoi-bugzilla, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: meta, Whiteboard: [author]) 

[A note about terminology: I use the word "vendor" even though I mean
vendor/creator/maintainer of product, which may be free or commercial.]

A whole lot of web pages out there are created with some kinds of HTML editors
or other tools that produce HTML (for example from databases). Many of those
applications produce plain wrong HTML. Because of these there will continue to
be the need to evangelize. We could change this by going to the tool vendors
directly.

I understand that changing some of these tools is an enourmous job, but there
are at least some things that would be quite easy to do. For example it should
be easy to change the products to produce the correct HTML DOCTYPE definition in
the beginning of the generated HTML files.

I propose that we should collect all such tools that we know of in this bug (or
alternatively use this bug as a meta bug and make this depend on each tool bug).

We should describe to the tool vendors what is wrong with their product, what
kind of problems does it cause, and how they could fix the problems (if not all
problems then at least how to minimize the harm).
And when the generated HTML is bogus, it is better to use no doctype at all. See also my 
comment from 2000-10-19 12:06 in bug 36045.
-> evangelism@telocity.com for my evangelism bugs.

removing the now-depreciated evangelism-related keywords.

setting platform to All.
Assignee: blakeross → evangelism
Reassigning evangelism bugs to bclary@netscape.com.
Assignee: evangelism → bclary
dupe?
Keywords: meta
Priority: P3 → P1
All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.
Component: Evangelism → US English
Product: Browser → Tech Evangelism
Version: other → unspecified
bug 51020 - Dreamweaver 4 pretty much supports us.
bug 85104 - Peter and HierMenus supports us.bug 92725 - Dynamic Drive needs some
help.
bug 54458 - DynApi

NewsMenu
GoLive
FrontPage
AllWebMenus
Internet.com properties such as webreference.com, javascript.com, etc.
Builder.com
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Depends on: 51020, 54458, 85104, 92725
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla0.9.5
follow up with these sites by 0.9.5
Summary: Contact HTML Editor/Tool vendors to update their products → Evangelism - Contact HTML Editor/Tool vendors to update their products
-> 0.9.6, need to follow up on these asap
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.5 → mozilla0.9.6
-> authors
Component: US General → Authors
Whiteboard: [aok]
adding fireworks tracking bug. and no, just because the fireworks bug has the
number 666 in it doesn't mean we're all doomed to extinction.
Depends on: 126668
tech evang june 2003 reorg
Assignee: bc → english-us
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Component: Authors → English US
QA Contact: zach → english-us
Whiteboard: [aok] → [author]
reset milestones as irrelevant to tracking bugs.
Target Milestone: Nov → ---
This bug doesn't track anything for a long time. 
Closing as INVALID.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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