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posted by chromas on Wednesday October 03 2018, @06:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the every-site-a-framework dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by sjames on Wednesday October 03 2018, @09:24PM

    by sjames (2882) on Wednesday October 03 2018, @09:24PM (#743680) Journal

    A designer is a delusional being that insists on spending thousands on specially calibrated monitors and office lighting so they can produce an ad slick that looks exactly what they see on their screen. All so I can see it entirely differently anyway because I'm reading it while wearing tinted glasses on a train with dubious quality lighting or in my living room that definitely does not have calibrated lighting.

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