Opuscula Google’s “Blogger” Screws up links And changes codes

I WONDER — IS THERE ANY blog host that doesn’t try to change what the blogger keys?

Google’s Blogger insists on changing my coding.

I HAVE BEEN hand coding HTML since the early 1980s. I created documents for commercial clients and I created a framed web site for myself.

I don’t claim to be an expert, but I know what I know.

For example, standard HTML opens and closes commands within < and > brackets.

When I code my blog copy, paragraphs are separated by </P><P>. In truth, the </P> is not needed, but I use it anyway.

Google, in its “wisdom” swaps my code for </br> — a line break.

If I wanted a line break instead of a paragraph, I would have coded <br> where I wanted the break.

What REALLY gets me upset is when Google adds code to a link.

An HTML link is a simple code

<A HTML:”https://tinyurl.com/y6ucta7t”>https://tinyurl.com/y6ucta7t</A>

Google screws things up by adding its OWN code, as shown in the following image.

Above image shows how Google destroys properly coded HTML links.

What is the function of Google’s &#8221; at the beginning and end of my carefully — AND PROPERLY — constructed link code? The Google addition cancels the link (and is the reason I must include the link as plain text so readers can copy and paste the link into a browser.)

By the way, creating this blog entry is a pain in the posterior since I am forced to use code for < > and & in the foregoing examples. (I have no idea Google’s what &#8221; signifies to Blogger; to me, it signifies Google’s heavy hand on my coding. It also prevents my link from working.)

Do other blog hosts do the same?

The copy for this entry was created using LibreOffice Writer (similar to MS Word, but free and offers some different functionality). The copy was “plain text” — that is sans boldface, italics, underscore, etc. These enhancements are implemented using standard HTML codes. I could use a simple text editor (e.g., MS Notepad) but I depend on spell check; most text editors lack that.

I allow Google Blogger to insert images although I have coded images into place when I had a more flexible host.

All I want is a blog host that WON’T MUCK ABOUT WITH MY CODING. Is that too much to ask?

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