Mozilla.org has liberated the world from the stranglehold Microsoft once held over the most important software category of our generation, the browser. Faster, more capable, and far more secure, Firefox and those who have contributed to it have done a tremendous service to us all.
Given Firefox's success, I've been surprised to see so little activity in the second most important software category: web authoring. Currently Adobe appears to have a monopoly on the cross-platform market for web authoring in both source and WYSIWYG modes. There are other tools which do a fair job with the WYSIWYG side but prevent the author from tweaking the source, and there are any number of source editors which are great but simply require more time and effort for many common tasks than a good code generator with a layout mode can do. It seems that a tool offering true "round trip" authoring, allowing the author to switch between source and layout, would be the most welcome compliment to Firefox. I've tried to find such an open source tool, a true Dreamweaver Killer, but I haven't found one yet. Mozilla Composer appears to be EOLed, and the few successors appear to be languishing if they're still in development at all. In much the same way that IBM and other large organizations have helped fund Linux development, what would it take to pull together the resources needed to make the world's greatest web authoring tool to compliment the world's greatest browser? _______________________________________________ dev-tech-editor mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-editor
