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Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed

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

canopic jug writes:

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: 1) by kai_h on Thursday October 04 2018, @05:32AM (1 child)

    by kai_h (1524) on Thursday October 04 2018, @05:32AM (#743873)

    Web pages today, almost without exception, are not static HTML and CSS.

    Your browser is ultimately handed a bunch of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but the HTML your browser receives was most likely not coded by hand and never existed as one chunk of HTML until it was dynamically generated. The vast majority of sites on the web today have a database driven back end and some form of CMS at the front end.

    No-one is making sites any more with hand-coded HTML and CSS (nor even with GUI driven HTML and CSS) as now days they're more commonly coded in php or ASP.NET or something else like that. In some cases, the CSS is hand-coded, or developed with a GUI based tool, but it's difficult or even impossible to preview database driven webpages in an offline editor.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @07:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @07:23AM (#743904)

    I still extract data from systems and produce HTML reports that are made pretty by CSS.
    What should I use?

    Right now I load the result in the web browser and play with it there with dev tools