[ale] OOops! OpenOffice munges my HTML

John Mills johnmills at speakeasy.net
Mon Mar 31 12:55:57 EST 2003


Irv -

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Irv Mullins wrote:

> On Saturday 29 March 2003 09:35 pm, John Mills wrote:
> > ALErs -
> >
> > As an OpenOffice-1.0.2 beginner, I decided to try it on a simple bit of
> > maintenance on a web pabe I maintain. All went fine until I tried to view
> > the new file with my browser.
> > @#$%&!!
 ...
> I've tried OO with an html page known to be good with all browsers I can find.
> OO managed to mangle the file so that it failed miserably on everything except 
> Konqueror. Tables were totally trashed when viewed with Mozilla and Phoenix, 
> partly trashed when viewed with Links and IE. Also, OO added borders to 
> tables which had been defined as borderless. In addition, the html is about 
> 50% larger. 

Thanks for the 'reality check'.

> Call me old-fashioned, but Quanta Plus does what I need. Not WYSIWYG, 
> but neither, apparently, is OpenOffice:)

No - the trashed version still looks fine to OO -- maybe that expands to: 
'OverlyOptimistic'.

 John Mills
 john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu

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