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Physicist Igor Ljubuncic writes about the dearth of offline graphical web editors. These used to be quite common, but all the established names are long gone and even some of the newer ones are looking neglected. He summarizes what's still available now in 2018 and the relative strengths and weaknesses of these remaining tools.
Once upon a time, there were dozens of WYSIWYG editors, all offering their own wonders, as well as their own range of inconsistencies, garbage code and functionality. I came across the old Nvu back in 2006, upgraded to Kompozer when this one came about, and kept on using it ever since in some form or another, as it offers the simplicity of writing stuff without having to worry about code, plus some serious usability benefits that no other program seems to offer. But then, Kompozer hasn't seen any updates in a long while, and some refresh is needed. What do we have on the table?
And I'll add in a general question, what is your preferred method of dealing with either HTML or CSS or both? Strangely mine is Emacs for the HTML and vi for the CSS.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday October 03 2018, @07:05PM
Interesting its sort of cross platform problem. For a good laugh try android development using android studio and its WYSIWYG editor. The fundamental problem in both cases seems to be evolution of the language is faster than evolution of the WYSIWYG although end user devices seem to render well.
In Android Studio you can use the layout editor to do a... TextView like from 2010 and it'll work, but if you want to do Material Design stuff thats only 3 or 4 years old, thats far too new to be supported, so if you want to do TextInputLayouts with TextInputEditTexts inside using androidx the layout editor changes from WYSIWYG render mode to WTF render mode. Oh well, maybe someday Android devs will have a dev environment that supports stuff written after 2013 or so. And yes I am using a beta canary (and if you don't know what that is, its kinda like sausage you better off not knowing).