Bluefish isn't a WYSIWYG editor [LWN.net]

Bluefish isn't a WYSIWYG editor

Posted Sep 18, 2003 8:54 UTC (Thu) by hingo (guest, #14792)
In reply to: Bluefish isn't a WYSIWYG editor by drfickle
Parent article: The Screem HTML/XML Editor

Calling Screem WYSIWYG doesn't really seem appropriate either...

http://www.screem.org/screenshots.php

While I'm at it, a WYSIWYG HTML-editor is one of the things I truly miss on
Linux. (Last time I checked Mozilla composer was 'WYSIWYG' but
certainly not 'HTML' ... ) I've even resorted to using wine+frontpage express
once! I'm hearing that Quanta has something in the works, let's keep our
fingers crossed.

henrik

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Bluefish isn't a WYSIWYG editor

Posted Sep 22, 2003 22:48 UTC (Mon) by crouchet (guest, #1084) [Link]

>>Amaya is WYSIWIG, and is Open Source.<<

And with its connection to W3C the code tends to be standard compliant and relatively
simple (unlike the mess that comes from a horror like Frontpage).

I have been know to crank something out in Amaya in then drag it over to Bluefish for
polishing. I know some people are really bothered by the idea of using 2 tools instead
of having it all in one but I don't see the problem. I just use each tool for what it does
best.

I know I CAN do non-WYSIWYG in Amaya but I prefer Bluefish for that part.

The only MS tool for which I have found no real replacement is Visio, specifically some
of the magic I can do with the pencil tool. I keep hoping something like Dia will get
there.

JC

Bluefish isn't a WYSIWYG editor

Posted Oct 8, 2003 17:41 UTC (Wed) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link]

You are both right.

Amaya is a pretty good (and even free) wysiwyg html editor. The reason I
forgot/discounted it is that it doesn't do my own homepage perfectly (ok,
so I use two nested tables for layout, shoot me) so I've had no use for it
and have counted is somewhat as a disappointment.

I could see myself using Amaya for a from-scratch project just the same
way the other writer suggests, throwing out a layout, then hand-code the
rest of it somewhere else. This is how I've always done web-pages
anyway, first do a quick mock-up in Frontpage/FP express/whatever, then
finish the work by hand.