A very good wysiwyg is Star Office 5.2. It's a little old but you can do a frame set with just a few clicks and edit your pages directly in the frame set. It is very usefull. If you don't want to use the latest features of the html format, it's a vey good choice, the program is a little bit old and you can configure it in the options like html 3.2 compatible (the best choice, like that you are sure at every browser that is frame compatible (modern) can read your pages) or choose another format that offer extra possibilities like explorer, netscape or StarOffice but with those formats, you can get in trouble with the others browsers as the one you have choosed. A tips, if tou are using Staroffice and you will reedit an existant frame set, you MUST have the external browser option in the prefs to NO external browser, otherwise it's not wirking. That have tokk me 2 hours the first time to found it. GRRR... Sun have stopped with the Staroffice 5.2 download, but you can get it in every SuSE ftp mirror. You will find the packages in the pay series, in the 7.3 version or 7.2, you need 2 packages, the main staroffice package so_base and a langage package so_en or so_fr... I have installed it with Suse 8.0 and it's working very well. For me it's a very great program for the html, the code it write is very good, with not a lot of extra code, and it is even possible to edit the html directly if needed. It is very sad ot Sun have disabled the frame set possibility in the vrsion 6.0 and even openoffice have done the same.... Dominique James Mohr wrote:
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 07:40, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I tried Quanta, and if I'm not missing something, I don't like the fact that I can't build by wysiwyg. I'm not a hard coder by any means, but I can find problems with code after the fact. Is there a way to build in a preview screen?? Similar to Frontpage or Dreamweaver.
Actually, the fact that it is **not** wysiwyg is why I use it. It is a "Web Development Environment" and not an HTML editor. In my experience the problem with wysiwyg editors is that they are designed for a particular browser or browser family. As a result, there are many things that do not work or work correctly in other browsers. If you are so used to drag-n-drop without udnerstanding the underlying HTML, Javascript, perl, etc then you are in deep kimchee when you run into problems.
With wysiwyg editors I have had troubles with things like tables in forms or certain combinations of tags. FrontPage seems to be the worst about "knowing better" than you. I couldn't get rid of it fast enough. Sometimes I do need the wysiwyg to get things like tables to look right, so I use things like Star Office (as Gustavo suggested), just to get things to look right.
I think my Linux Tutorial is a great example of what you can do with Quanta. I have **developed** the site using Quanta and not just thrown a few HTML pages together. There is a lot of **functionality** there, not just "cute" pages.
Regards,
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