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Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
by Kenneth Chau on Tuesday 11/Dec/2001, @13:40

WYSIWYG is a myth in the Web world. What you see in Dreamweaver or any other such editors is KIND OF what you get. Dreamweaver is NOT the only solution forWeb design/development, but I have to admit... it is one of the best. I guess what Dreamweaver excels at that Quanta does not have is the fact that it lets you format things visually and interactively. It lets you see KIND OF what you get with tables... adding and deleting COLUMNS of tables is HELLISH by hand if you would pardon my strong language here.

What I AM going to do for Quanta is to list out some specific things about Dreamweaver that shines:
- Table formatting - albeit inaccurate sometimes, but that's the BEST way really to format Web pages
- Visual feedback of what font/size would be on the page
- Library/template engine makes maintaining a large Web site a breeze
- Behaviors - predefined/wizards to JavaScripts is nice because I don't care to write the same roll over code twice
- Customization - the extensions (perhaps we can make plugins easily without compilation of source code...??)
- It is cross-platform in Win & Mac... honestly, Linux isn't the choice in Web DESIGN simply because it doesn't have something like Dreamweaver for me!

BTW... Does Quanta HAVE to affiliate with KDE? I mean, if it only depends on QT, can't we port it to the other OS's as well??

Just a thought... email/reply to this as you have comments/suggestions!!

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Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
by Shawn Gordon on Tuesday 11/Dec/2001, @13:52

Quanta has a CSS editor, but I know what you mean about tables. God, nested tables within tables to align data is just a nightmare with HTML. I've run your ideas by the engineers.

Quanta Gold runs on Linux and Windows today, and has since the day it was released. We are working on the Mac version now and should have it available by the end of the month.

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Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
by Kenneth Chau on Tuesday 11/Dec/2001, @13:59

Shawn, you are awesome. 12 minute response time. I'll note that about Quanta :) Who knows how long before folks at Macromedia would take before replying to ANYTHING I write. Once again, thank you.

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Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
by Jim on Wednesday 12/Dec/2001, @15:14

> Table formatting - albeit inaccurate sometimes, but that's the BEST way
> really to format Web pages

Argh... NO! That is not the *best* way - it's an extremely ugly hack that is only necessary to support the layout in browsers that don't support standards (standards that are fairly old now).

Please, if you add the capability to lay out pages with tables, don't make it the default, whatever you do. It's about time people just bit the bullet and accepted the fact that it is OK to have old-fashioned layout for text browsers and five year old browsers.

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Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
by Kenneth Chau on Saturday 01/Apr/2006, @12:17

That was many years ago... I've since moved on from using tables for laying out all of my sites. With advances like CSS/XHTML/JS/Ajax and what have you, you can really ditch the WYSIWYG world completely! Just mod your code and hit a refresh on your browser to see your results...

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