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- From: Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@bitnova.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Does anyone know a good html ed.?
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 17:11:46 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
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- Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) wrote:
-
- >This is a very frustrating topic for me... so far I know of
- >four HTML editing solutions for Amigas.. well actually five...
-
- Try six. :-)
-
- >a) learn HTML and just use any text editor.
- >b) HTML Heaven, a suite of ARexx-talking programs that talk to
- > various Amiga editors that have ARexx ports. (on Aminet)
- >c) AmiHTML, a bound CanDO deck with its own editing area inside
- > a buttony interface (might be on AmiNet, can't remember)
- >d) WebMaker, another integrated editor with HTML command buttons,
- > requires MUI 3.1 or higher. (on Aminet)
- >e) Those Final Writer macros mentioned above. (on Aminet).
-
- f) Heddley 1.1, AmigaGuide _and_ HTML editor. Not flashy, but it works.
-
- >They all leave something to be desired, in my opinion, and I find
- >myself using combinations of all of them from time to time.
-
- It gets even more interesting. I've downloaded and tried just about every
- HTML editor I can get my paws on for winders machines, and while they
- look GREAT on the surface, 90% of them are little more than text editors
- with buttons marked in HTML-ese labels. I haven't found ANY demos or
- otherwise of decent WYSIWYG HTML editors on any platform as of yet. And
- what I have found have been flawed, buggy, or just plain broken. And
- almost every single one of them requires me to break out my HTML
- reference to figure out why thier output is broken or munged.
-
- So the Amiga ain't hurting as bad as people would think in this area. We
- have fewer choices, yes, but we also have fewer BAD choices.
-
- >I use an off-line-capable Web browser, edit my stuff, save it,
- >and reload the page in the browser constantly, after evey save.
- >This requires a lot of screen flipping but it works, although it's
- >tedious when one has a lot of HTML authoring to do.
-
- Same thing under Windows. You do your editing in the editor, you reload
- the doc in NetScape to view it. Only one program I've tried thus far has
- a built-in viewer of the output, and since what IT says the output looks
- like bears little resemblance to what NETSCAPE shows it as, guess how
- much THAT option gets used.
-
- >The Amiga desperately NEEDS a commercial-quality integrated
- >HTML editor
-
- Geez, Harv, set your sights HIGHER than the trash I've seen commercially
- available on other systems, PLEASE!
-
- NO. What the Amiga needs is an HTML editor that lives up to the high
- level of quality that I see in a lot of Amiga SHAREWARE. THAT would blow
- away just about anything out there.
-
- > with full graphical wizzywig previewing features, OR
- >a commercial-quality web browser with built-in HTML editing
- >functions. I'll settle for either.
-
- Point me to this solution on ANY platform. I have Win, Amiga, Mac, and
- X-Win available to me within arm's reach (ex Amiga, I keep it at home :-)
-
- Please.
-
- >Here's $100 in my hands, Amiga developers. I don't want to spend
- >it on Adobe PageMill to run under Mac emulation.
-
- Well, that's one of the better demos I've seen so far, but it still ain't
- what I'm looking for. :-)
-
- > I'd rather
- >give it to one of you. But so far, none of you have made the
- >product that I want.
-
- Wonder if Ed Dumbill could be persuaded to put Heddley on steroids? :-)
- Seriously, take a look at it as an HTML editor, I think you'll agree that
- it's on the right track, although not up to speed for full HTML editing
- (backgrounds, etc).
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