A thicket is a set of files and folders that are related to a single web
page, usually one saved from Microsoft Word. It is important to note that
Word is not an HTML editor, but a proprietary binary document format that
uses embedded images. HTML is a pure text format that relies on external
resources, such as image files, to display binary data such as images in a
web page. When you save a Word document containing images as HTML, links
must be created in the HTML to external locations of images that were once
embedded in the Word document. As the links in the HTML file ("camping.htm")
are related to external files and folders created by Word when the HTML file
was created, these relationships must be maintained. FrontPage, on the other
hand, is an HTML editor, and manages these sorts of location relationships
automatically.
This is one reason (among many) why it is not an especially good idea to use
Word for creating HTML files, even though it has that capacity. The
translation from the proprietary binary Word format to the ubiquitous HTML
text standard is not always simple or pretty. the more complex and fancy
your Word document, the more likely that it will not translate well into
HTML.
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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
If you push something hard enough,
it will fall over.
- Fudd's First Law of Opposition
