Typing in Word is convenient for most people because of simple speel-checking:). Then if they want to publish online, they have to export it, right? Well if you export from Word, then it add tons of meta-tags with possibly unwanted information in there as well, and Word does a crappy job of exporting to text. Besides, people don't like looking at boring monospaced text documents. HTML just looks better, right?
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Typing in Word is convenient for most people because of simple speel-checking :). Then if they want to publish online, they have to export it, right? Well if you export from Word, then it add tons of meta-tags with possibly unwanted information in there as well, and Word does a crappy job of exporting to text. Besides, people don't like looking at boring monospaced text documents. HTML just looks better, right?