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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: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday October 03 2018, @08:19PM (1 child)
Except you actually mean a bunch of different browsers, because there are sometimes major differences between how different browsers behave, e.g. some of them evaluate CSS in a different priority ordering.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Zinho on Wednesday October 03 2018, @08:37PM
Exactly. Bonus points for running multiple versions of each browser in parallel in case different releases of the same browser acted differently. Lightweight virtual machines became my friend pretty quickly when they became available.
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