AutoHotkey Community

It is currently May 27th, 2012, 10:10 am

All times are UTC [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 1 post ] 
Author Message
PostPosted: July 26th, 2006, 10:08 am 
Offline

Joined: December 27th, 2005, 1:46 pm
Posts: 6837
Location: France (near Paris)
There are a lot of freeware HTML editors, but most of them are just syntax highlighting editors of HTML source, with typing help, ie. providing shortcuts and helpers to insert HTML tags.
It is fine, I code most of my HTML by hand actually, but for new users (or pragmatic ones), it is better to have a visual editor, WhatYouSeeIsWhatYouGet (WYSIWYG), where you just drag an image where you want it, and so on.
I like to have control and I don't like much the code I see generated, but hey, they can even be useful to break down quickly a general layout, before tweaking it by hand.

Beside the ancesters, the awful FrontPage (awful for the generated code) and Netscape Communicator, I see a growing number of such free editors.
Of course, there are powerful and expensive professional tools like Macromedia (now Adobe) Dreamweaver, Adobe GoLive, and so on.

I list the freewares here as I find them. Already got 4 of them. Except for Nvu which I briefly tested, I didn't downloaded them so I cannot guarantee anything about them!

Nvu - I believe it uses Mozilla codebase (XUL), thus it is cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS, etc.).

Dynamic HTML Editor - The old version (1.9) is free, the new one (3.x) is shareware.

WYSIWYG Web Builder - The 2.x version (in the Download section) seems to be free.

<blink> - It was payware, it is now free. Mmm, the description lets think that it is WYSIWYG, but from the screenshots, it looks more like an HTML editor. A capable one, thought.

_________________
Image vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")


Report this post
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 1 post ] 

All times are UTC [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests


You can post new topics in this forum
You can reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group