I usually agree that bashing a piece of MS software isn't very constructive, but geez, we're talking FP here ;-)

1 it like to make a couple of extra directories - and on modern servers a few extra bytes really isn't a problem.

As long as FP would limit the extra bytes to the server, I wouldn't have any probs with it, but it generates tons of HTML "crap" that you spit towards your visitors. Not very nice, IMNSHO.

I'm already using FP and my pages run on a UNIX server and any browser - so what is non-standard?

The frontpage extensions for one ... After I've seen what it had done to a server, I refuse to touch a server which has them installed (the "installer" messed a LOT up, permission-wise). Besides that, it may look good in "any" browser you have tested, but I bet my money on it that it doesn't validate ;-)

If you're used to editing stuff by hand already (which is a good thing, if you'd ask me) why not use the earlier mentioned gvim? Or any text editor for that matter. Since you run your site on a UNIX machine, SSH into it and edit your files there. Then you can see the results of your alterations in Perl scripts right away :-)

• HTML is a language created to develop webpages. It has a DTD and some specification (see The World Wide Web Consortium for some boring, technical, but useful info on this).
  
• HTML is *NOT* a language that should be oriented to be used with a specific software.
  
• FP is the *WORST* HTML editor I (and at least half the professionals) know to do the job.
  
• The great majority of webservers around the world *AREN'T* produced by MS, so you *WILL* have problems.
  
• There are other free options to use and you'll have to learn to do the code yourself anyway, even if you use Dreamweaver (wich, in my opinion is the best Visual HTML Editor).