what is the best WYSIWYG HTML editor money can buy?

Question

Hi,

I am not looking for 100% standard compliant WYSIWYG editor, cos that is not possible (Well I have not heard about it). I am looking for something that is not DreamWeaver and as close to standard compliant as it can be.

My requirement is now that I am doing real-mockup of the project in HTML I just don't want to throw this work away.. I want to re-use the HTML created by the editor and fix/hand code where needed.

Downloading templates that is close to the layout and editing is not an option for me. Tried that before ended up spending too much time trying to understand the code ..

Answer 1

How about TextMate?

Answer 2

It would be far more worthwhile to learn HTML/CSS (the basics of both are fairly easy to understand, so it wouldn't be a huge time investment if you're interested in this code stuff) than to buy/acquire a WYSIWYG editor.

That said, my employer seems particularly keen on fckeditor, which is a javascript based WYSIWYG whicn you can embed in your own forms/pages.

Answer 3

There's no such thing as a WYSIWYG HTML editor.

HTML is rendered to a rather flexible standard, which allows for among other things, flexibility in default colors, font-families, font-sizes, spacing, etc. In addition, all modern browsers allow the use of user- and browser-specific stylesheets. Your web users may choose to increase or decrease font sizes, expand the window, reduce the color resolution, view your page on an iPhone, or any number of things that might make your page.

A professional web programmer is (one should hope) aware of the many variations his page may undergo between the time he designs it and the time someone views it, and tries to make his page look good under most reasonable circumstances, and on most reasonable browsers.

But it is always a compromise. We do the best we can. Personally, I don't even begin a project until I have a list of target browsers to check, knowing that it will never look perfect everywhere.

WYSIWYG only makes sense if every views your web page in your "WYSIWYG" editor.

Answer 4

I am a huge fan of Topstyle. It is an amazing CSS editor. It also integrates cleanly with dreamweaver and what not.

Give it a try.

Answer 5

I've used KompoZer before, it's quite nice and it is open source :)

Answer 6

As Triptych said, because HTML is rendered slightly differently by each browser, there is no such thing as WYSIWYG editor.

Open each of the main browsers. Write a script that auto refreshes each browser every time your HTML changes. Edit the HTML in notepad. That's the closest to WYSIWYG you'll ever get.