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Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore?

From nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore?
Date 2013-11-28 15:31 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <281120131531267495%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
References <lyndon-458FD4.18004526112013@74.sub-97-136-209.myvzw.com> <2013112807450986714-xxx@yyyzzz> <slrnl9eri8.vs3.g.kreme@mbp55.local> <281120131411130436%invid@loclanet.com> <2013112812145425069-xxx@yyyzzz>

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In article <2013112812145425069-xxx@yyyzzz>, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

> I'm using the last published version 3.0.4.  In one of the initial 
> offerings (v1.x I believe), it published all/most pages as whole 
> images. So if there was text and you wanted clip it, it was not 
> available. It really sucked. To this date, I still hear people 
> bad-rapping iWeb 1.x because it did that so very long ago. Should 
> consider the failings of Word 1.x either, in considering it's current 
> incarnation?

the original iweb used images for text when the font was not a standard
font so that it could guarantee that it looked the way the designer
intended.

unfortunately, that made web pages huge and non-searchable.

> I don't know when ftp server options became available, but it seemed 
> like they were there with the 2.x version as well.

i'm pretty sure 1.0 could export a site, which you then could upload
however you wanted.

later versions made it so you could do it directly. 

however, it's been years since i used iweb, especially 1.x.

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iWeb - any use for it anymore? Lyndon <lyndon@someisp.com> - 2013-11-26 18:00 -0800
  Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-26 21:10 -0500
  Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-11-26 18:41 -0800
  Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? Beli <baiheli.pip@xs4all.nl> - 2013-11-27 08:59 +0100
    Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-11-27 07:11 -0800
  Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-11-27 19:32 +0000
    Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-11-28 07:45 -0800
      Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-11-28 16:24 +0000
        Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? Invid Fan <invid@loclanet.com> - 2013-11-28 14:11 -0500
          Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-11-28 12:14 -0800
            Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-11-28 12:21 -0800
            Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-28 15:31 -0500
              Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-11-28 13:37 -0800
            Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-12-10 00:49 -0500
              Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-12-10 10:04 -0800
        Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-11-28 12:01 -0800
  Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? Lyndon <lyndon@someisp.com> - 2013-11-27 21:36 -0800
    Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-11-28 07:46 -0800
      Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? Frank <gno52@windstream.net> - 2013-11-29 04:06 -0800
      Re: iWeb - any use for it anymore? Frank <gno52@windstream.net> - 2013-11-29 04:08 -0800

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