Tom wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Home Page equiv for Linux??' on Fri, Aug 06 at 13:37:
On Friday 06 August 2004 11:22 am, Danny Sauer wrote:
I've used Mozilla's HTML editor some to do things like table layout, etc, and have noticed no such problems. Then again, I usually do stuff by hand, so perhaps I just know what to avoid. Could you elaborate on the types of layout problems you encountered?
--Danny
Its been a while, but I recall shifting tables...like tables within tables. Table spacing issues...which is a bad thing when one splits up images and uses them in different cells within a table. And positioning of images. Font representation with using CSS also.
Again...it's been a while, but that's what I kind of recall.
Ok, so just screwy CSS stuff, generally. The kind of thing that pro web developers run into all the time anyway. ;) I found that Mozilla worked better by unchecking the "use CSS attributes" checkbox in the composer preferences, and never went back. My wife uses it for all of her web development, since it's a decent WYSIWYG editor and it's free, so that may help the OP. Like I said, I don't really use it much, either way. BTW, it's also a good idea to uncheck the "pretty print HTML" option, too - it'll mangle otherwise good code, esp with an image split across table. It's not as good as the latest Dreamweaver, but from the OP's goals, I'd guess that the users aren't gonna be creating super- fancy sites anyway, just some simple markup in a WISYWIG editor. Mozilla would do that well. I've never trusted an office suite to do HTML the way I think it should be done (like, as a flexible medium, not a print layout), so I've nothing useful to contribute re: OOo. --Danny