theperlyking - 7:10 pm on Mar 24, 2001 (gmt 0)

Just to add my experiences to the pot.
I decided to clean up some FP pages, they were heavy on data and 500/700k, after cleaning in a text editor it was down to a quarter of that. By the nature of the cr*p FP inserts you can if you are lucky get rid of a lot with find and replace, for example in FP 97 (not sure about later versions) you can select some text and click the button to make it smaller, it inserts <small> tags. Now say you click that button ten times, it inserts ten tags, only five actually make any difference because by then its not going to get any smaller. IIRC you can then try to make it bigger 5 times until its normal but it still leaves orphaned small tags in the code.
Apart from just plain bugs like this the other main cause of bugs is themes, especially applying multiple themes one after another.

Like I said I cleaned up the data pages, the others I just had to give up on and do again. The main problem with FP and new users is its too tempting for them to insert crap, newbies don't realise that using Java hover buttons etc. are NOT a good idea.