On 10/19/06, brian.lu <Brian.Lu at sun.com> wrote: > > As far as I know, there isn't a HTML composer as good as Dreamweaver in > unix world. > > Nvu: The development work seems to be stopped after 1.0 was released > and it has very limited features.
That doesn't seem to be the case currently: http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?Nvu In summary, we don't plan to deliver Nvu and Seamonkey on solaris. Is it too late to reconsider nvu given that it seems to have acquired new life? I feel a desktop is incomplete without an HTML authoring tool. Thanks, Bob We > are trying to get permission to contribute seamonkey nightly build > to the Mozilla community, user can download and install the seamonkey > nightly build on his/her solaris machine by that time. > > Brian > > Calum Benson wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > desktop-discuss mailing list > > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20061019/d6350ddd/attachment.html>
