On 19 Oct 2006, at 10:47, Tao Chen wrote: > On 10/19/06, Bob Doolittle <bobdrad at gmail.com> wrote: > ... >> >> Do people feel that vi/xemacs (or Star/OpenOffice, >> or bluefish) is sufficient, or should OpenSolaris provide >> a good WYSIWYG HTML Composer as part of the >> standard desktop? > > I don't know what professionals (webpage developers) use
Dreamweaver and GoLive (both owned by Adobe since the Macromedia takeover) are pretty much the only game(s) in town there, but of course they're Mac and Windows only. As for Solaris options, I'd guess SeaMonkey's Composer is most likely to be under active development for the time being, but it presumably still lacks some of the features that nvu added to Mozilla Composer. (I haven't seen it to check.) > However, I understand a HTML WYSIWYG composer is a must for broader > audience, when Solaris is used as a desktop OS, in the future :) Well, I guess that's an interesting debate in itself. I suspect the days of homebrew websites are already very much on the decline, with the advent of blogs, wikis, myspace, flickr et al. So there are probably fewer and fewer HTML-illiterati out there who need to put together a web page in the old-fashioned way. (Even Apple's new iWeb application doesn't actually let you edit *any* HTML-- it's 100% visual.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
