I used to be a member of the HTML Writers Guild.
http://www.hwg.org/The point was to write as efficient code without all the extra junk that most web editors add in.
I do not do it anymore.
Things like Adobe Pagemaker, MS Front Page, Dreamweaver can do somethings that are hard to do in just html.
Use your browser page and use the view page source on different pages.... Then go WOW... It is like assembly language programing, vs a higher language. Assembly is lean and mean... Just like HTML.
Wife used dreamweaver at work... She really liked it.
I hate a web page that does not show correctly in all web browsers.
I use Firefox-Mozilla most, then Opera and last IE as web browsers.