Does Google Pages Suck?

Friday, February 24, 2006

Update: I removed some linkrot and replaced a broken link to the announcement that Frontpage was killed off.

I saw Google Pages pop up on the del.icio.us “popular links” radar earlier this week and Drew McLellan's reviewed it already.

Signup was painless, editing was painless, publishing was painless. The resultant markup? Painful.

Is it just me, but why is the initial report about each new web publishing tool the same old goddamn refrain? What is this, nineteen-ninety-fucking-eight? When the hell are tool-makers going to start respecting the markup that comes out under the hood instead of just the surface-level appearance?

I'm officially out of patience when even Google gets this shit wrong. I was rejoicing about Frontpage dying earlier this week and the relief was short-lived - we're making some of the same mistakes all over again, but hey, it's okay because it's on the web daddyo and that makes it cool, dontcha know?

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Yes, GooglePages really do suck. It is 2008 -2 years since this article and the last comment were written- and GooglePages continues to have the same sucky, largely uneditable output.

not WYSIWYG! Not standards conformant. A real time waster.
# posted by Blogger ChicoFNB : 3:04 PM :  
Yes, GooglePages really do suck. It is 2008 -2 years since this article and the last comment were written- and GooglePages continues to have the same sucky, largely uneditable output.

not WYSIWYG! Not standards conformant. A real time waster.
# posted by Blogger ChicoFNB : 3:05 PM :  

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