[CentOS] OT: Linux WYSIWYG HTML Editors

Sun Jun 28 23:06:28 UTC 2009
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Rob Townley<rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Ned Slider<ned at unixmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> Lanny Marcus wrote:
>>> I have KomPozer installed, but after using M$ FrontPage for years,
>>> KomPozer looks like it is going to have a learning curve and I want to
>>> get away from FrontPage and Windows.  I know Mark (MHR) uses
>>> SeaMonkey. Wondering if there is anything else I can use on Linux that
>>> is easier on a FrontPage user. I found this article:
>>> <http://webdesign.about.com/od/htmleditors/tp/aatpwyslinux.htm> when I
>>> googled. Recommendations?  TIA!
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>
> It always seemed to me that the only logical reason for FrontPage to
> purposely mess up the tag order was in the hopes that someday M$ would
> be the only ones capable of detangling it.  Without FrontPage
> generating such messy html, i think you will find hand editing
> html/xhtml/xml to be not so difficult.  O'Reilly's Head First HTML css
> and xhtml is a good book. http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/
>
> eclipse and some plugins as documened here:
> http://web-design.lovetoknow.com/Eclipse_HTML_Editor

In addition to the bad HTML code produced by FrontPage, the Server
Extensions for Linux were EOL a long time ago. I want to get away from
FrontPage and Windoze.