The Screem HTML/XML Editor [LWN.net]

Screem, the Site CReation and Editing EnvironMent, is a web site development environment that provides a combination HTML and XML editor. The project's aim is a bit different from WSYWIG HTML editors.

[Screem]

In general WYSIWYG editors do not produce good clean valid HTML, and can also slow you down if they do not support an element that you wish to insert. By utilising a text based editing system you can use the markup you want rather than what the application thinks you need, and also provide quick access to commonly used elements via toolbar buttons which insert the markup at the current cursor position.

Screem provides a number of useful features:

Page Previewing to render the html.
Support for previewing with an external browser.
Syntax Highlighting to highlight code keywords.
DTD/Doctype Parsing for identifying and parsing DTD files.
Inline Tagging with popup menus for various tags.
Intelligent Closing (intelliclose) for assisted tag closing.
Support for Helper Applications for extending Screem's capabilities.
Document Structure Display for a big-picture view of the document.
Broken Link Checking for testing link validity.
Publishing with Sitecopy for keeping track of what files have changed.
Search and Replace that works on a site-wide scope.
A Task Management system for making lists of work to do.
Spell Checking with support for the edited language.
Link Fixing for assistance with site rearrangement.
Page Templates for building new pages.
Select Context for moving sections around the document.
CTags File Support for linking to multiple files.

Take a look at the Screem Screenshots and Documentation for further information.

Version 0.8.0 of Screem was announced on GnomeDesktop.org this week, followed shortly by the bug-fix release, Screem 0.8.1. The version 0.8.0 announcement says: "This release incorporates all the changes made in the development versions over the past 7 months, and should hopefully fix some of the complaints about 0.6.x. Screem stands for Site CReation and Editing EnvironMent, and is an HTML/XML editor incorporating site management features such as templates, automatic link updating, broken link checking, and uploading changes to remote sites."

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Bluefish isn't a WYSIWYG editor

Posted Sep 18, 2003 2:21 UTC (Thu) by drfickle (guest, #1093) [Link] (5 responses)

Unless you have a uber-s3|<r37 release that no one else has, Bluefish has always been a regular HTML text editor.

Bluefish isn't a WYSIWYG editor

Posted Sep 18, 2003 8:54 UTC (Thu) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] (3 responses)

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

Bluefish isn't a WYSIWYG editor

Posted Sep 18, 2003 21:50 UTC (Thu) by nowster (subscriber, #67) [Link] (2 responses)

Amaya is WYSIWIG, and is Open Source.

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.

Bluefish isn't a WYSIWYG editor

Posted Sep 18, 2003 15:50 UTC (Thu) by cook (subscriber, #4) [Link]

Oops, you're right,
<a href="http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/">Bluefish</a>
isn't WSYWIG, the article has been updated.