HTML Editor with WYSIWYG & Manual HTML Editing

Posted by Trish on July 18, 2007, 10:32 pm

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I just had a bad experience using MS Word as an HTML editor. It
bloated more than 200% so I could barely recognize the essential
statements; and it introduced more than 14,000 errors. Also, although
it displayed fine in Firefox, it was unintelligible to IE. I spent
the day trying to reduce the errors to the point wherel HTML Tidy
could finish a pass without aborting. Finally I succeeded. No
errors. It displays fine in Firefox & IE.

BUT, my question is, what can I use for an editor now? I'd like to be
able to insert table rows and columns with the ease of MS Word, but I
want no errors and I want an HTML code that I can still modify
myself. What can you recommend?

Thanks a lot.

Trish

Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on July 18, 2007, 11:09 pm

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Trish wrote:

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No surprise there. I've read where the four worst HTML 'editors' are:

4. Microsoft FrontPage
3. Microsoft Word
2. Microsoft Excel
1. Microsoft Publisher

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Wow! That has to be a new world's record!

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..but that is rare. Normally, IE can comprehend, and all real browsers
screw up with all the MS bloat in there.

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Time is never recoverable.

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I like (for Windows) Crimson Editor ... but that is what it is, an
*editor*, not a word processor or code generator. It is also an
excellent project manager for your sites.
http://crimsoneditor.com/

Then again, I write code by hand.

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Try Kompozer, which is the continuing development of NVu.
http://kompozer.sourceforge.net/

but remember, there are no WYSIWYMG 'editors' that generate error-free
code.

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-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Posted by Jonathan N. Little on July 19, 2007, 1:00 am

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
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I don't know how about 557 KB for a site with two sort paragraphs and
one 17 KB background image! I think my "MS Publisher Web Guru" is at it
again with a new site...

http://www.eclipseibizans.com/

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eclipseibizans.com%2F
Result for http://www.eclipseibizans.com/ - W3C Markup Validator

Not quite 14,000 but 807 errors is a pretty large number.

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Jonathan
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Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on July 19, 2007, 9:34 am

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Jonathan N. Little wrote:

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Oh. My. &deity;.

If ever there was an example as to why Publisher is Number 1 on the
list, there it is. Though I will have to give her *some* credit: at
least this one actually displays something in Firefox or Opera...

Run her "Photography" page through the Web Optimizer. Over 4 Megabytes
for a few un-optimized graphics.

This woman needs a house call.

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-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Posted by Bergamot on July 19, 2007, 10:00 am

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Awesome. Puts my measly 205K Publisher generated page to shame, but then
a lot of the content in my page was in graphics rather than text. :)

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