Richard Gaskin wrote: > 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?
Designing an editor is hard, I've said before. But not all hope is lost... http://www.activestate.com/OpenKomodo/ _______________________________________________ dev-tech-editor mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-editor
