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Posted by Lars Eighner on February 14, 2007, 9:36 pm
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Andreas Borutta broadcast on comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:
> Lars Eighner schrieb:
>>> I am looking for a good,
>>> "free" WYSIWYG HTML Editor.
>>
>> This used to be a frequently asked question. The answer is that there
>> cannot be any such thing.
> That's true.
> We better talk about the only reasonable type of html-editor for human
> authors:
> WYSIWY*M*
> Or do you like to edit data tables in your texteditor?
For the most part, I edit data in a database and php (re)creates the tables
faster than I could in any kind of editor.
> Or are you as fast in editing data tables in a texteditor as in a
> WYSIWYM editor?
I'm sure I am. Why in the world would one editor be any faster than the
other.
> Or do you never edit data tables by hand?
Seldom. But if the html were ever too messy to read, I;d get my editor to
pipe it through tidy.
> But a data table is only the most obvious markup, for which a
> texteditor is a poor tool.
> A texteditor annoys an author with letting him view unneccessary
> things - in standard situations (=standard markup).
On the contrary, it makes it clear to the author what, exactly, he is
writing. How do you enter a copyright symbol in a so-called WYSIWYG
editor? Well, you go up to the menu, pull down something, hunt through
a table of characters, etc. In my text editor, it's Meta-aOc. An
eacute? Meta-ae'. It's Meta-a + how you would compose the character
with a typewriter: cent sign Meta-ac/. What could be easier?
> In non-standard situations, of course, a texteditor is a must.
> But well. That topic isn't one, which is traditionally discussed
> unprejudiced. ;)
> Andreas
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