The WD HTML structure furore

[Soquili]

Long threads like this bring in lots of search engine activity. This makes the thead higher and higher in the search results.

With all the comments about bad HTML many people will not purchase the program incorrectly thinking it is not worth their time nor money.

I know everyone claims to only want to make the application suitable for their use. But continuing to rehash the same comments only make it more likely the program will never reach it's initial potential because of the comments.

Just my .02 cents US. I Spent many years in the USAF and was daily briefed to suspect almost everything has an ulterior motive. It did save my butt many times.

[Xhris]

Long threads like this bring in lots of search engine activity. This makes the thead higher and higher in the search results.

With all the comments about bad HTML many people will not purchase the program incorrectly thinking it is not worth their time nor money.

I know everyone claims to only want to make the application suitable for their use. But continuing to rehash the same comments only make it more likely the program will never reach it's initial potential because of the comments...

You could be right, but I think it's a small concern. Most people probably won't base their buying decisions on one or two thread's contents alone. Plus these arguments are quite two-sided as well, providing balance. But you're right to echo what I was saying above about the unhelpfulness of repeating the same arguments though (but the solution is not to lock my thread like the other similar threads; it will just pop up elsewhere and cause more repetition).

[covoxer]

(but the solution is not to lock my thread like the other similar threads; it will just pop up elsewhere and cause more repetition).

Indeed. It will pop up anyway. And not once.
Remember how it was after XXP4 release? And then html was a secondary feature, and the overal response was much lower than we have with WD.

[Soquili]

You could be right, but I think it's a small concern. Most people probably won't base their buying decisions on one or two thread's contents alone. Plus these arguments are quite two-sided as well, providing balance. But you're right to echo what I was saying above about the unhelpfulness of repeating the same arguments though (but the solution is not to lock my thread like the other similar threads; it will just pop up elsewhere and cause more repetition).

Xhris there was no mention of any intent to close your thread. I was attempting to have people see the futility of all the posting. It is like a treadmill...you can walk or run for hours but you never actually get anywhere other than the treadmill.

John is providing excellent feedback but some are not interested in hearing it, only in repeating their own desires.

The application is only a few days old. Give it time to evolve. Take time to use it for what it was designed to do and make note of the areas that could be improved. After careful analysis compose a recommendation for improvements and give things time to be evaluated for feasibility.

The immediate posting of perceived deficiencies appear to be more of a knee jerk reaction rather than a considered evaluation. Repeating the same statements does not mean anyone will receive a different answer.

Give the Xara Team time to evaluate and test and re-evaluate and re-test if needed.

No program can be everything to everyone.

As a professional Web Developer there are a wide selection of tools to use. Use the design abilites of Web Designer if they can be used in your work for prototypeing if nothing else.

Even if every suggestion put forth by the professional web developers were to be emplimented you would still need other tools for some aspects of your work.

[Egg Bramhill]

Hear, hear Bill.