On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 10:33, Peter van Hout wrote: > I will start moving some of my stuff over from XP over the weekend but > I’m looking for WYSIWYG web authoring/design software. [Breathe, Michael. In... out... in... out...] <rant flamesuit="on"> 1. True WYSIWYG is impossible for Web authoring as you have *no* control over the user's browser. 2. WYSIWYG does not work for the blind. 3. WYSIWYG completely misrepresents how the Web works. </rant> [Must.. answer... question...]
As far as Web authoring software goes, I use the XML mode in XEmacs, which has context-menus for all the tags and attributes. To keep myself sane I stick to "XHTML-1.0 STRICT", which has surprisingly few tags :) If the document is complex I tend to write Docbook-XML [1], and convert that to XHTML using "xmlto". Docbook is excellent for writing technical documentation, but the number of tags is huge [2]. I find structure easy to think about, so the visual tools hinder me more than help (your mileage may vary). The Raggett Guide is a good start if you want to learn how to create HTML by hand [3]. [1] http://docbook.org/ [2] http://makeashorterlink.com/?J59B225E4 [oreilly.com] [3] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/ -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
