sunlist wrote on 10/20/06 12:39 PM:
> 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.
FWIW, I have successfully built Nvu 1.0 on Solaris 10 x86 with Sun
Studio 11. I don't use it myself, but have had reports of it working
fine for others. I don't think I had to do anything special when I
built it.
I did try to build KompoZer 0.77 a few days ago, but it wasn't
straightforward - I ended up with a binary called kompozer-bin
and a wrapper script called nvu - I'm not sure which is right, and
don't really have time to figure it out right now.
~Iain
> 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
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