HTML 2.0 editor for Windows?

[Nik Coughlin]

Does someone know a free, downloadable HTML 2.0 editor/composer for
Windows? It would be nice if it followed the HTML 2.0 standard.

Notepad++

 

[Andy Dingley]

Does someone know a free, downloadable HTML 2.0 editor/composer for
Windows? It would be nice if it followed the HTML 2.0 standard.

Emacs surely?

If you have any _possible_ rational reason for using HTML 2.0, it's
surely related to some historical academic interest. If so, a text
editor and a DTD-based validator would seem most appropriate.

There is _no_ good reason to author in HTML 2.0 other than the
historical curiosity though. Counter-examples would be very
interesting.

 

[Toby A Inkster]

I find these ancient rules better than those of today. Why does
everything have to be new and fancy?

Try HTML 4.0 Strict. It was published (if I recall correctly) in 1997 so
it should satisfy your desire for something ancient.

If you avoid using the following elements:

<link rel="stylesheet">
<style>
<script>
<applet>
<object>
<iframe>

then you should be able to produce pages that work flawlessly even on
Mosaic 1.0. (Trust me: I do test extensively in old browsers. I have
a beta of Mosaic 0.6 for testing.)

When it comes to supporting really old browsers, if you author as above,
the real problem you're likely to hit against is that many of them only
support HTTP/1.0 and do not send an HTTP "Host" header as part of their
requests. (The "Host" header was optional in HTTP/1.0, but is required in
HTTP/1.1. Mosaic didn't start sending this header until 2.x IIRC.) If
you're using shared hosting, this will mean your site is completely
inaccessible to older browsers -- the HTTP is the problem, not the HTML.

--
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[Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
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[Neredbojias]

No, you have it wrong. It is more like the desire for simpler
older cars than something idiotically irrational.

Which class would you put "getting a horse" in?

Actually, no, _you_ have it wrong. It is idiotically irrational.

 

[Bergamot]

As I remember, Netscape would not display a table if any parts of
elements were missing, such as </table>.

NS 4.x had known problems with the optional closing tags. It got very
confused if a </tr> or </td> was missing.

 

[dorayme]

Which class would you put "getting a horse" in?

Actually, no, _you_ have it wrong. It is idiotically irrational.

<odd_couple_talk>

Here we go again... Boji! The earth was never ever flat. And you
don't roll off the bed any worse on a big heavy ball. Trust me I
know, I have been to planets, some flat ones too. You don't know
what the OP really is doing and he may be just wanting to take a
ride in a really old car. That should get your respect if not
admiration. Please, from now on, do me a favour, run your posts
past me before posting them. Make a webpage with login facilities
and simple content management where I can vet your proposed posts.

</odd_couple_talk>

 

[Neredbojias]

<odd_couple_talk>

Here we go again... Boji! The earth was never ever flat. And you
don't roll off the bed any worse on a big heavy ball. Trust me I
know, I have been to planets, some flat ones too.

I once visited a planet so flat that even Viagra was useless.

You don't know
what the OP really is doing and he may be just wanting to take a
ride in a really old car.

Actually, he made his mind very plain when stating he preferred the old
rules.

That should get your respect if not admiration.

Not hardly. The old rules don't and never did work better than the new
rules.

Please, from now on, do me a favour, run your posts
past me before posting them. Make a webpage with login facilities
and simple content management where I can vet your proposed posts.

</odd_couple_talk>

Would you inhibit free speech, freedom of thought, and the right of
normal human beings worldwide to avoid some crazy Australian woman who,
though intelligent, seems to have a few decidely sinuous kinks in her
synpotic rete?

 

[dorayme]

Would you inhibit free speech, freedom of thought,

Well, frankly, yes. There are special circumstances where a bit
of curbature would be beneficial on the whole. Sending Officer
White around to you so often is so indirect. I would prefer
better control. For the greater good, mind you.