Composer to get another hearing (News.com) [LWN.net]

News.com covers the resurrection of Mozilla's Composer. "Minutes from an April 28 Mozilla staff meeting where Glazman volunteered to take ownership--an open-source development term indicating authority over a project--indicated that Composer would live on as an extension to the new Mozilla browser rather than a standalone application."

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Composer to get another hearing (News.com)

Posted May 9, 2003 2:40 UTC (Fri) by jayorke (guest, #10685) [Link] (1 responses)

Thank god. I have downloaded Mozilla in some circumstances for Composer alone. So many HTML tools are so needlessly over complicated and end up creating an HTML file that is overbloated with unnecessary style definitions. Sometimes all you want to accomplish is create a simple document with some bold text and carriage returns. Sure it is easy to type in the tags yourself but why bother if there is a tool that takes simple documents and converts them to simple HTML. Dreamweaver is often overkill and as a regular reader of a Linux forum you can probably guess how much I like the idea of FrontPage generate HTML.

Composer to get another hearing (News.com)

Posted May 9, 2003 9:07 UTC (Fri) by frazier (guest, #3060) [Link]

Overall, I wasn't pleased by the Mozilla changes to composer (or whatever it's called in Mozillaland) and though I far prefer the Mozilla browser over Netscape for me the Mozilla composer is a downgrade.

I should add that I do for the most part use composer to layout components of a page but still do the real layout markup with a text editor.

Composer to get another hearing (News.com)

Posted May 9, 2003 15:26 UTC (Fri) by ttraub (guest, #2950) [Link]

Composer is a pretty handy tool; I use it occasionally to whip up a quick-n-dirty web page. It's not as sophisticated as something like Dreamweaver but it's got a couple of advantages; it runs on Linux as well as Windows and it does a good basic job.

I think there's a niche for this type of product. I've looked at several of the open source tools out there such as Amaya and they're just not there yet. Now if only Emacs had a Gecko-based HTML-preview-mode.... Anyway I'm glad to hear someone wants to keep this project going.