Hello all im looking for cross browse WYSIWYG css/html web editor ( freeware please ) that is desktop , can you recommend me on which should i use ?
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Kompozer is probably the "king" of free, desktop HTML editors. I can't confess to having tried it myself, but my efforts with Nvu (which it is based on) were less then successful (by the time it replaced every new line inside my with a <br> element, rending it horrible to edit in source mode, I had got annoyed enough to uninstall it).
I've had more success with Amaya, but it is a test bed, and it shows.
I wouldn't use a so-called-WYSIWYG editor for anything other then basic structure (i.e. letting it handle headings, tables, paragraphs, links, etc). I've never found a point and click system that attempted to perform layout that I was remotely happy with (Dreamweaver (which isn't free) included).
David Dorward
2009-05-12 13:22:13
Amaya is a browser; the OP wanted a "cross-browser" (i.e. presumably javascript to run in whatever the end-user's browser is).
ChrisW
2009-05-12 14:14:10
You say "I wouldn't use a so-called-WYSIWYG editor for anything other then basic structure", and you then list examples of basic structure. May I ask you to mention some of the non-basic things that you wouldn't use one for? I don't understand because I thought that (modern) [X]HTML contains nothing but basic structure, and that to edit layout your using a (WYSIWYG) CSS editor, not the HTML editor.
ChrisW
2009-05-12 14:17:05
Non basic structure would be scaffolding to apply CSS to and the CSS itself. A lot of editors try to write CSS for you - I've always been left underwealmed by the results.
David Dorward
2009-05-12 14:48:40
He said "that is desktop", so presumably a desktop editor rather then one that could be embedded on a page. I took cross browser to mean "Generates code that works cross browser".Amaya is a browser with a built in editor. I've only seriously used the editor part.
David Dorward
2009-05-12 14:51:10
Understood. Thank you.
ChrisW
2009-05-12 14:58:09