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- From: addison@shell.portal.com (Addison Laurent)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: WYSIWYG Web authoring package wanted!
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 11:23:51 -0800
- Organization: Portal Communications (shell)
- Message-ID: <4c9cc7$opv@jobe.shell.portal.com>
- References: <81603-819396170@mindlink.bc.ca> <aTmosh.0oui@amiga.ow.nl> <4bnc9r$q1s@pan.otol.fi> <149211@cup.portal.com>
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- Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
-
- >>Thomas Tavoly (aTmosh@amiga.ow.nl) wrote:
- >>> In article <81603-819396170@mindlink.bc.ca> summit@mindlink.bc.ca (Doug Brun
- >>) writes:
- >>> > I'm minutes away from releasing an HTML authoring app. Just need a few nip
- >>> > and tucks then it's done.
- >>>
- >>> Are you planning on making it WYSIWYG in the future?
- >>
- >>Umm, as if you already didn't know it, HTML can't be authored WYSIWYG.
- >>Just because it's a markup language and not a layout language.
- >>Lauri Aalto <aalto@iki.fi> --- http://www.iki.fi/aalto/
-
- >Then what, pray tell, is Adobe Pagemill? Sure looks wizzywig to me!
-
- HTML can't really be authored WYSWYG, but thats not stopping NetScrape
- and other from trying to make it so.
-
- HTML is supposed to be interpreted by the browser, so I can view in
- whatever my favorite font is, etc.
-
- It is slowly, sadly being used as a layout language, as opposed to its
- designed and avowed intent and design.
-
- Addison
-