1What is online journalism? - Ayo Menulis FISIP UAJY

Who’s afraid of HTML? 151
Although visual editors have increased in sophistication
over recent years, a working knowledge of HTML is still
recommended as even the best editors occasionally make
mistakes with code that are easier to rectify if you have some
knowledge of HTML. 2
If you like to know which end of the car to check the oil and water,
it probably will not hurt to take a peek at HTML. Then, if you like
what you see, you can buy other books and start stripping the
engine.
There is also a psychological benefit of considering HMTL. If
you never understand the principles of HTML, there is this
continual fear of being found out. The more you talk HTML,
the harder it is to confess ignorance. The thing becomes a little
monster, lurking in your psyche. Why not set it free?
HTML – some urban myths
Web aficionados will shake their head in disbelief at some of
the following, but these are the nightmares of the uninitiated.
‘I write HTML with a web browser.’
This is wrong, you read (decode) HTML with a web browser.
‘I need specific web authoring software to write HTML.’
This is wrong, you can write HTML on a basic word processing
or text-editing package, such as Microsoft Notepad. Indeed, the
more basic the better. If you write HTML on packages such as
Microsoft Word, the formatting within that software can give
browsers severe indigestion when they try to read the pages.
If you must use Word, save the document as a text-only format
(with the extension.HTM).
2 Whittaker (2000).