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Writing clean HTML is about a lot more than performance. It's about compatibility, maintainability, future-proofing, accessibility, and so on. History has show

Writing clean HTML is about a lot more than performance. It's about compatibility, maintainability, future-proofing, accessibility, and so on. History has shown us repeatedly that these sorts of wysiwyg programs write really bad markup, which is a symptom of their pretending that HTML is capable of things that it is not.

pavlov 15y ago
... their pretending that HTML is capable of things that it is not. That was unavoidable because HTML wasn't capable of doing the kind of layout that designers wanted. This was back in the late '90s, when the demand for WYSIWYG web design tools boomed but the HTML standard was splintered by incompatible vendor-specific extensions. We can do much better now; hopefully Adobe Muse does.