Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm looking for a "HTML Viewer/Editor" *NOT* a browser.
The closest I've seen is the Composer portion of SeaMonkey.
The pages I'm interested in viewing/editing are:
- Strictly local
- HTML 4 [ I know of NO desired feature introduced by HTML5]
- No JavaScript
- Capability to view image(s) retrieved from web.
NO capability to render a web page or Publish to web location
- use of validator.w3.org will be external
Some of this is imprecise, I'm still refining my goals.
Suggested stand alone software?
TIA
I'm assuming that you know that support for the Seamonkey composer was
dropped years ago. To me, one of the nice things about it is that
because it's bundled, if I'm looking at an HTML page in Seamonkey, I can
press CTRL-E, and edit immediately. That's great for the local
documents that I maintain in HTML. However, the tradeoff is that the
composer produces relatively sloppy HTML. I have found that for stuff
that I distribute, it's generally necessary to clean up the HTML, using
a tool such as Tidy.
There's a couple of stand-alone projects that are Gecko based:
- Kompozer (http://www.kompozer.net/). I believe that this one derived
from the Seamonkey Composer. I haven't checked the HTML closely, but
it's likely to be as sloppy. Kompozer is also out of development -- the
last release was 0.8.3b, in early 2010.
- Nvu, which is even older than Kompozer, and docs indicate that
Kompozer is derived from Nvu. The only reason that I mention it here is
that if you see reference to that name, you should ignore it.
- BlueGriffon (http://www.bluegriffon.org/) seems to have taken the bulk
of Mozilla-centric developer attention. There's a free version, but
there's also licensed versions with additional capacities.
For what I need, I'm content with Kompozer -- from the little bits of
playing I've done with BlueGriffon, I don't need the extra capacities,
and coming from Seamonkey, there's several quirks in the BlueGriffon UI,
which I find to be clumsy. I haven't checked to see if it produces
cleaner HTML.
Smith
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