Hello Ken, Ken Mays 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 feel that they do. If people felt that there was even one option other that the Mozilla Composer, I doubt that this thread would still be going on. FYI, its has been going on since 26 January 2006, as initiated by Vincent Quigley @ Sun. > > You have choices like you do with homes and cars - just depends on > what you can afford and afford to deal with... With the lack of options, I don't feel that price has even entered the picture yet. FWIW, my company (or myself) would pay the standard full Adobe license price should a commercial Dreamweaver/GoLive product appear on the market for Solaris. > > Seriously, you have a few good HTML editors to choose from on > Solaris. Some of the web developement tools I've reviewed or > maintained are: > > 1. Arachnophilia 5.2 (java based) > (http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/Arachnophilia.jar) > 2. Quanta Plus > 3. BlueFish > 4. Mozilla.org SeaMonkey suite (>= 1.0.5, very cool) > 5. Nvu Kompozer 0.77 (replaces Nvu 1.0) > Some of these applications I am familiar with, others I had to review again to make sure that nothing had changed, but: 1. Arachnophilia - this is not a WYSIWYG HTML editor. 2. Quanta Plus - I have not used this, and please correct me if I missed something here, but this also appears to be just an HTML IDE, with some preview features, +CSS & PHP. It appears that you would also have to worry about KDE dependencies to worry about if this was the app for you. 3. Bluefish - again, not a WYSIWYG HTML editor. 4. Mozilla.org SeaMonkey suite - I haven't looked at this in a while. Has something been done to upgrade Composer? 5. Nvu Kompozer 0.77 (replaces Nvu 1.0) - I had to visit all of the NVU/KompoZer forums and make sure that nothing has changed before commenting on this option, and, as far as I can tell, nothing has changed. In reviewing all the NVU forums, very few people have got a successful compile of NVU under Solaris. Of those who have got a successful compile, no one has got their compiled binary file to execute successfully. I wish I felt as optomistic about getting a decent WYSIWYG HTML editor operational on Solaris as you do. At this point I really don't. I am not a professional web master, but a network/unix sysadmin. Most of my html work comes along the line of creating reports, graphs, documentation. Why I have been a Sparc/RISC biggot for many years, unless some applications start popping out of the woodwork, my next plan of attack will probably be to fall back and purchase some type of x86 system (i.e. Sun Ultra 20) with some combination of Xen/Solaris. I have been following the Solaris Xen discussion group: xen-discuss at opensolaris.org for a while now, and they seem to be doing some great things. As far as this discussion goes, Xen+Solaris+MacOS X/intel running DreamWeaver would be wonderful. Food for thought. Jerry Kemp
