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Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
by Michael Collette on Wednesday 12/Dec/2001, @00:42
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Just thought I'd toss my 2 cents in here on this. I too would happily toss down cash on a reasonably decent WYSIWIG editor for web pages. I've been using Dreamweaver quite a bit since back to version 2.0 of their product. Presently I own a copy of 3.0 and haven't upgraded yet due to way too much focus on wiz bangy features that I don't want or need.
As a web developer I generally start my design work in Dreamweaver to get my layout put together. DW's HTML isn't perfect, but it's close enough. I would then take that code from that and bring it into an app like HomeSite to clean up the code a bit to my liking, and add my PHP into it. After the initial design work I rarely bring code back into DW to work on it, unless the page remained static.
Main features that I personally require out of DW are:
Table editing
Image placement
Form building
CSS creation and editing
Basic text formatting
What I don't use or need:
Prebuilt Javascript
Floating frames
Templates
DW Objects
Even without the layout options, there are a number of goodies in the file management that could be worked into something like Quanta. Namely, the mapping of a remote FTP site to the local directory structure. It is pretty cool to be able to click on a file and simply say "put". This is far more than just cool when you've got a client on the phone requesting a stack of little changes in various parts of the site.
Maybe a little later I'll bug ya with a full rant on what this developer would consider a full suite of web tools would consist of. Quanta is a damn fine start down that path, but it's not the whole picture. |
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Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
by gringoloco on Thursday 29/May/2003, @07:44
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HTML tables are hellish in Dreamweaver! DW adds an incredible amount of garbage to the code; I have no idea why. Often what you see in DW design view looks nothing like in IE. DW always seems to add extra space that you don't want, and then when you try to delete it, it throws the entire table out of whack. I try to fix it in the code, but DW has such a strange way of doing things, this is very difficult. I saw your site and wrote this after many hours of unsuccessfully attempting to place additional table cells alongside a prewritten table that I imported into DW. Anyone who sings the praises of DW probably has not used it much, but what is a better alternative?
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