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Re: What I would like to see
by Namshub on Friday 20/Jun/2003, @13:11

This is offtopic but Quanta can not be compared to Dreamweaver.

Dreamweaver is a WYSIWYG HTML editor (Although I'd call it WYSIAWYG - A for Almost :P) Quanta does not (yet) include a wysiwyg editor. But it is also more than just a plain HTML editor... (Go and read the features list, or better yet, try it! :P) The closest commercial program it could be compared to is Homesite, which used to be the industry-standard (for non-wysiwyg editors) before Macromedia bought it and "integrated" (more or less...) it into Dreamweaver. Needless to say Quanta is A LOT better than Homesite, or the non-wysiwig portion of Dreamweaver.

As for Dreamweaver being the standard I think this is sad but true. This program, along with GoLive!, generally produces "dirty" HTML (and I won't even talk about the javascript!) I think they are great tool for planning the design and for complex table layouts but coding should be done by hand... We can only hope Quanta will become the first wysiwyg editor that will produce clean, standard-compliant html :)

The major problem I think is that I learnt Homesite/Dreamweaver in school, but not Quanta. I did switch to Quanta but I don't think my old classmates did...

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Re: What I would like to see
by Dave on Saturday 21/Jun/2003, @03:16

Yeah, I appreciate the difference - although IIRC Quanta is getting WYSIWYG support. But the original poster claimed he was building "the best HTML editor in the world" or something similar. I'm all for ambition, but it should be tempered with realism. We will be able to say that Quanta is the best HTML editor in the world when web designers all over the world agree and switch to it :-)

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