Hi All,
Completely off topic, and I understand that this is like asking who has the Holy Grail...
Anyone have good experience with a WYSIWYG HTML editor that outputs plain, clean HTML code?
Anything close to say LibreOffice Writer or MS Word that exports/outputs regular HTML and not a thousand lines of trash to say “Hello World?”
While I’m wishing on a star, if it also has a spell-checker and a table of contents creator based on H tags nirvana might just be found!
Best, Thanks, Michael
On 01/23/2019 08:17 PM, Michael wrote:
Hi All,
Completely off topic, and I understand that this is like asking who has the Holy Grail...
Anyone have good experience with a WYSIWYG HTML editor that outputs plain, clean HTML code?
I looked several years back. Everybody claimed to have a wysiwyg, but all ended up generating bloated or awkward markup that took longer to pair down and tweak than it did just to write it correctly to begin with.
TDE provides both quanta+ and kate that do a wonderful job of tag inclusion and are very easy to work with. Quanta+ does quite a bit more than kate, and I really enjoyed it for html/css/php/javascript coding.
I'm interested as well as to whether wysiwyg has made much progress.
Hello I don't know what you're trying to do, but You are asking for something modern Internet has not invented. I had the same questions years ago when I started my "computers" website, and I finally went with FrontPage through WINE. The code looks very awful in all versions except 2003, in which at least part of comments can be turned off (so it looks just awful now), but this is the best thing I could find. A few months ago I was looking for such thing again, when I planned to write documentation for my program, and found Brackets editor for coding pure HTML/CSS, it has some "fireworks" such as auto-refreshing preview but nothing like WYSIWYG. When I saw PHP errors in CSS (!) of my workplace's website I had to revise my opinion about FP's output code quality :-) . For Linux apps, in supported ones, you have SeaMonkey Composer. This is near Mozilla Composer. Nvu/Kompozer is dead for a long time and BlueGriffon probably went totally closed source. Additionally, I was looking for HTML editor just with Screem's capability of renaming site's hyperlinks with renaming files and even this feature seems to be absent from programmers' editors now!
Unfortunately, now IMHO, there won't be such thing at all. Modern Internet doesn't work this way anymore, it is more focused on ads than for content and for ads you only need a good PR experts and code mechanic who will embed their things into "app".
MCbx
On Thursday 24 January 2019 04:11:17 am iadest@o2.pl wrote:
Hello I don't know what you're trying to do, but You are asking for something modern Internet has not invented.
Hi All,
I’ve pretty much done like Jonesy through the years. If I needed to do something not in a CMS’s WYSIWYG editor, I’ve written everything in OO/LO Writer and then used NoteTab Pro to apply HTML markup.
Like probably most of us, I look every 5-10 years for this concept, and sadly I didn’t find anything close to a WYSIWYG editor that just outputs plain HTML this time either. It seems utterly stupid that LO Writer can’t do this.
I did try several of the suggestions given and I liked Quanta Plus the best:
# quanta -version Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.4 Quanta: 3.5.13
Package: quanta-trinity Source: tdewebdev-trinity
- Quanta is better than NoteTab Pro at CSS highlighting. - NoteTab Pro is better than most HTML editors as it also includes a Clipcode programming language. *
Okay, “better” is my personal opinion... I’ve probably written 10’s of thousands of lines of Clipcode over the last 20 years, so I’m a bit biased...
Oh well, thanks for all the thoughts and comments.
Best, Michael
* One example, you can make a copy the H2 clip and then modify it so it both creates a H2 with a named anchor and creates the associated table of content entry with the text you’ve selected. If you ever need help with it, drop me a line...
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Michael