I sometimes do re-designs on pages made with Frontpage. Usually, I can reduce the amount of code by 60 to 80%(!)

All MS products seem to write wrong code on purpose, so as to make the pages look bad in other browsers than IE. Many of the code constructs are downright ridiculous, like writing 1000 characters of code to obtain a 1 pixel margin between two elements.

I agree that dreamweaver is a good product - much better code quality than FP. However, my general opinion is that NO editor *knows* what I want and therefore adds a lot of unnecessary code just to get it "right" from a wysiwyg point of view - and this is not necessarily the best way to look at the construction of a page.

But *I* know exactly what I want - so what do I need a wysiwyg editor for? I code by hand - zero code garbage, ultra-fast pages, validated code.

Alex