posted 17 years ago
In my experience there isn't a single "visual" editor for web pages that does even a halfway decent job at producing more than marginal code.
Almost universally the code they produce is a disaster. Extremely fragile, way too much code for the job, impossible to maintain, etc. etc.
A properly handcrafted page takes about the same time to make (and for an experienced person likely less), is far easier to maintain, performs better on the client, is less buggy (I've seen generated pages so bad they caused not just the client browser to crash but their entire PCs), and reduces network bandwidth use dramatically (in my experience generated pages are in general several times larger than handwritten pages, sometimes more than 10 times the size).