The last weeks, I am moving from MS Windows to Ubuntu. But following this, you will need to abandon MS Windows tools and to start using Linux tools. I realized there are two Windows-specific tools I use: my C++ IDE and my HTML editor. Last week I abandoned my old C++ IDE C++ Builder and moved to Qt Creator and still haven't looked back.

Now, this weekend I abandoned my favorite HTML editor: MS Word. Although I knew MS Word did not generate clean HTML, I did not care. Until now: most of my webpages contain 75% 'junk'! I use Gedit to be able to write pure-text HTML in an editor without word-wrapping and my first Qt Creator console tool 'CodeToHtml'.

Compare for yourself two very similar pages - Clean HTML, 2798 character: http://richelbilderbeek.nl/CppGetExtension.htm - Word HTML, 11822 character: http://richelbilderbeek.nl/CppRemoveExtension.htm

They do look very similar, but note the different sizes in page source code. It will be a lot of work taking all the junk out, but for me it will be worth it...