FrontPage, the Web authoring tool that people love to hate is undergoing big changes in its next release. An article on CRN.com states that FP 2003 will include an XSLT editor and blogging tools (fancy that).
Meanwhile an article on Ziff Davis U.K. states that the folks at Microsoft have listened to the myriad of complaints and are cleaning up the code. The chief complaint against FP has always been its messy code, but they claim they will produce industry standard code in the next version. As they say, the proof of the pudding is in the tasting (that's what they really say), so we shall see what will be.
I've actually always felt that FrontPage was a decent tool for non-Web professionals. You don't have to like the code, but code isn't the be-all and end-all of Web publishing. One of the big plusses for blogging is supposedly its simplicity and ease of use. If that's the case, then FrontPage has come the closest to giving non-technical end users the ability to publish Web sites fairly easily and I don't see anything wrong with that. See my 2000 Accelepoint article on "technosnobs."
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