The Quanta project goal was: "... to produce a program that we could walk away from and it could continue to evolve with nothing more than the skills it takes to write a web page... and while we continue to add new and exciting features that require extensive programming you can be helping us to add templates and scripts and more until we have an on line resource that makes Quanta very complete."
It sounds like what you want and I'm sure that the developers are not loath to use Microsoft promoted concepts where appropriate. If they have not enveloped .NET, I bet they will soon. I'll also bet that someone, somewhere is working on NET2php. How the thing really works, I don't know. The handbook says the XML tools are GUI front ends to meinproc, checkXML, xmllint and xsltproc. There are also a Document Type Editing Packages, "to add support for markup, scripting languages and CSS. ...provide features like auto-completion and node trees. ... are made up of two parts, the Tag Folder and the Toolbars." The manual goes on with an example that looks a little more complicated than a mouse motion. I thought I'd bring it to your attention if you had not tried it. The mono 1.0 release looks tasty too, but it might be more difficult to get than Mepis or Debian unstable. I don't need either for myself. On Wednesday 30 June 2004 01:25 pm, John Hebert wrote: > However, these aren't objects instantiated from HTML > "classes". I assume Quanta is generating its dropdown > menus of HTML attributes, etc, from a static file and > not the XHTML schema. So, for instance, how would you > create a new HTML, or XML rather, tag with attributes > that could be handled via dropdown menus? Basically, > how extensible is Quanta? > > ... > > I realize I am committing heresy here for praising > something that Microsoft has done, but free means > freedom to me, not religious zealotry. Microsoft has > certainly copied good ideas from the free and open > source software communities; Mono is simply doing the > same.
