* Simon Harvey:
> Can anyone advise as to whether Visual Studio creates decent html?
No. It actually _modifises_ standard-conforming html to be
non-standard-conforming, when you use the design view. In particular it
replaces html entitites with Windows only characters, and other sh.t.
> Does it conform to the standards from the w3c?
No.
> Does the html coming out of it work in other browsers?
Sometimes.
> I've made a few pages and have been getting odd layout problems, which is
> really annoying me. I'm not good enough to make html on my own. I rely on
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> the other browsers out of the market by making up its own stupid syntax for
> an already standardised langauge?
Don't confuse what could be just incompetence and stupidity with evil
intentions -- the reasons why are not clear.

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