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For a time Front Page and Dreamweaver existed and it spit out all kinds of proprietary code with weirdly named functions and classes. Generally, it's not for a
by wyuenho 5y ago
For a time Front Page and Dreamweaver existed and it spit out all kinds of proprietary code with weirdly named functions and classes. Generally, it's not for a lack of trying but the devs that get handed source code these tools generated had a hard time modifying it. When they succeeded, these tools had a hard time recognizing the manual changes devs made. So the tools were fighting with the devs all the time, and then the "pros" came in, and decided to hand code everything with text editors.
Similar stories still happen with Wix and Squarespace. The web pages they generate are powerful, but also full of dead code that is only useful to the editors, not the end product.