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From: Victoria Hamill
Date: Oct 6, 2004 10:36AM





Hi,

I have a question about which is the lesser of two evils. We develop sites
using a Content Management tool we have built using Lotus Domino. One of
the weaknesses of this is that Domino occasionally "makes up" the html for
the rich text elements as it goes along.

For instance, when generating a list, it forgets to close the tag, so
you end up with something like the following:


Option one....
Option 2...
Option 3...


Content Managers were previously laying out bulleted lists using tables
with 2 columns to show the bullet in the first column. Clearly this isn't a
good way of showing lists, but at least they were seperate rows and looked
good.

We don't want to have to train all of our content managers on how to
manually code lists properly in HTML - and if we did try, they would
probably just ignore recommendations anyway!

So my question is, which is the lesser of two evils? Putting it in a table,
or having unclosed tags?

Thanks for any suggestions

Victoria