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- From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
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- Subject: Re: Does anyone know a good html ed.?
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 22:20:03 -0800
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- >Just how useful would be a WYSIWYG html ed?
-
- Very. The Web is a highly visual medium. Why not create pages
- in a highly visual way? (I can hear the flames now but...) if
- you want to make a picture in Deluxe Paint do you open an editor
- and start typing in hex code for pixel colors and positions?
- Would you rather?
-
- Don't you think wiping some text with the mouse and hitting
- a button that says [B] on it is easier than opening the
- editor, putting the cursor in front of the word, entering <B>, then
- cursoring over to the end of the word and entering </B>?
- Well sure, maybe it is, if you only have a couple trivial
- page changes to make. There's no reason, then for all
- the overhead of aprogram like PageMill to bold a word here,
- or header a word there. But for initial page development,
- it could be a highly useful tool, if it was done right.
-
- >
- >Look at PageMill from Adobe, hardly what you call useful...
-
- I got to look at it. It's pretty simplistic. Mac magazines
- are lukewarm about it. It's not all it could be, by a long shot.
- But one bad or lukewarm example does not nullify the possible
- benefits from _such_ a product. Netscape 2.0 "gold" looks
- like it'll be umm...interesting :)
-
- >
- >And html specs change all the time, no editor would be able to catch
- >up with all the changes unless you send upgrades frequently.
-
- ... "modems". Put the new versions online and let the users
- download and install or patch their old versions. This is trivial.
- Any software company who still has to mail out physical disks
- for minor upgrades simply isn't hip to what a modem is.
- Hell, the software in AmigaTech's Surfware pack all have the
- capability of letting the user push a button and the software
- is queried as to its version, and if anewer one exists, it's
- automatically fetched and downloaded. This is the way it should be.
-
- >
- >IMHO, a editor for the new CSS implementation for HTML3 is more
- >important.
- >
- >just my 2 pennies,
- >
- >--
- >kifo
- >http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~zcwakfo/ <-- HTML3 compliant
- >kimmie@overman.demon.co.uk
-
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