Hello guys,
I bought Metalweb straight away after a short look at it, because I wanted
to support Amiga programs and Metalweb looked promising. I have mailed the
authors once or twice about updates, but have seen no motion whatsoever,
apart from the reply that they would start working on it 'in two weeks'.
Well, that was two months ago now.
Just learn HTML, it's really simpler than learning all of Metalweb's quirks.
I originally purchased Metalweb with the purpose of creating my own site and
possibly a commercial site for a company, but am now using a plain text
editor.
I have three bachelor's degrees in computer science and 15 years of
experience (including HTML, Perl/CGI and recently JavaScript), and my
professional opinion is that Metalweb 4 is an alpha product. It should not
have been released in it's current state. Anybody who knows anything about
HTML will tell you the code it generates is simply not up to scratch. It
crashes way too often - this has nothing to do with other apps, it's just
crappy programming. After using it for a bit I submitted between 15 and 20
bug reports, but as you say, nothing happens with them.
If any other folks are interested, I'm willing to collect a list of your
names and send a few e-mails to the Vapor people that we would like to see
some action on Metalweb or that we would like to have our money back. I can
easily argue that the product itself it not worth asking money for in it's
current state, and we've all seen that nothing is happening to fix it.
> > am not at the computer). But, compared to the cost in time
> and dollars
> > to learn HTML (or to have somebody else build the webpage for me), I
> > think its worth the registration fee.
Believe me, learning HTML takes you less time than learning how to
circumvent all of Metalwebs bugs, errors and otherwise incorrect behaviour.
Besides, the time you spend on correcting the bad HTML that Metalweb
generates is also teaching you HTML. Just get the HTML v3.2 standard from
the WWW Consortium site (http://www.w3.org) and have a look at it. I now use
only a text editor.
Just edit your text file ending in .html, open a few different browsers and
load that file as local file. If you save the text file, simply press the
reload/refresh buttons on the browser. That's only one step away from
WYSIWIG, but it's perfectly stable and works very fast.
BTW, there are also a few editors that speed up HTML tag insertion by
allowing you to click on predefined sets. This also reduces the chances of
typos for tags. I will probably soon have a look at GoldEd 5, which you can
download for free now.
> Where can I get V3.8 from ?
Yep, I'd be interested in v3.8 too, if only just to have a look at.
W.
