On Friday 31 January 2003 07:05 am, Ben Huot wrote:
: I've used Netscape Composer almost exclusively for several years and
: don't recommend it - it has no text editor with it - it can't handle
: Javascript - runs all the lines together. It keeps on defaulting to
: local absolute links for href and img so when you upload it works fine,
: but just on your computer. Can't handle forms graphically.
I used netscape composer years ago... it was horrible.
:
: It uses line breaks instead of paragraph breaks - which is good for
: poetry. Why don't you just use Gimp and make imagemaps of everything and
: then make pdf versions of your content. Imagemaps allow for much more
: flexible design layout. Almost every Linux program outputs to ps and you
: can use ps3pdf to convert it to pdf.
Image maps are cool... they do make for good design in some ways, but ofcourse
arent good for everything... most of my html Im able to do with very simple
easy to read code (although IE and netscape dont deal with whitespace well...
so sometimes I have to remove nice easy to read formatting to pull
everyhting into one line... it sucks, but thats how you deal with IE)
:
: If you are willing to use something with as few features as composer,
: use open office html editor - it is much better. I have also used this
: for about a year and liked it much better.
yeah... I havnt tried Open Office yet.. Ive used MS office to do html (it
doesnt do a nice job with the code.. makes it bloat hard, but sometimes it
make a quick coversion of a word doc or excel spreadsheet into something you
can view on the web.
:
: You could also use Abiword pretty soon - I use it to convert files to
: xhtml format. The development version suppports tables. It is like lyx
: in that it is structured but it uses more current technologies. It
: integrates with gimp and has a lot of useful features like on the fly
: spell check, thesaurus, etc.
I use abi word for reading word docs... it works pretty good for that!
:
: The coffecup html editor has a preview but you still code by hand.
Ill be trying out CoffeeCup and Quanta+(Ive used it before.. it has usefull
features) CoffeeCup looks really pretty, but we'll see if its usefull too. I
noticed it seems to come with some CGI (perl) stuff... maybe Ill try that
out!
Jamie
:
: Linux Rocks ! wrote:
: > I guess Ill have to try mozilla's composer feature... thats 2 votes I
: > belive... I tried bluefish a year or 2 ago... I didnt like it... what is
: > it about it that you like? (maybe Im missing something?)
: >
: > Jamie
: >
: > On Thursday 30 January 2003 11:13 pm, Bob Miller wrote:
: > : Linux Rocks ! wrote:
: > : > So... I was thinking Id try some html editors for linux. There are a
: > : > few out there, I havent tried many, but I was thinking of trying
: > : > some. Anyone familiar with any? what are some of the features?
: > :
: > : Try bluefish, and try Mozilla Composer. I can get work done with
: > : either one, though I agree with Larry that Composer's table support is
: > : weird.
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Let's call it an accidental feature.
-- Larry Wall
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