Why not create a WYSIWYG Web Editor

hgilbert · Post by **hgilbert** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:37 pm

Now that is something badly missing in Linux.
And I guess not as hard to code as a SVG Graphics program.

You could call it WebMaker

Tobias-L · Post by **Tobias-L** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:20 pm

Thanks for this suggestion. Maybe we will do one in the future.

hgilbert · Post by **hgilbert** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:02 am

Netfusion Objects shamefully removed support for Mac and Linux.

The number 1 software request for Linux is a WYSIWYG Web Editor.

Competition is zero (I wouldn't call the bad Moz-Composer clone NVU or the pitiful OO web writer serious competition).

Next time people shout "We want a Macromedia Dreamweaver substitute" - everyone else will shout back: try WebMaker !!

Just study what makes a good WYSIWYG Web Editor succesfull and follow the principles.
Code highlighting is easy - you will find regular expression code all over the net.

Post by **martin-k** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:34 pm

I haven't tried NVU so far, but they claim it's basically Mozilla Composer plus site management. What don't you like about NVU? User interface? Missing features? (which ones?) Support?

hgilbert · Post by **hgilbert** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 7:06 pm

everything
its an over-hyped offshoot of Mozilla Composer.
But hardly any difference.
Well .. apart from being much slower under Windows.

Firefox which is also another offshoot of Mozilla evolved very fast and rapidly.

NVU is being sponsored by Linspire but for months on end you see hardly any real progress.
Had they been more humble about the project - sort of "well we are trying but its hard as hell"
but not they gloat as if NVU is the next best thing to Dreamweaver.

I found this today:
http://www.ndeepak.info/stuff/vtu/ginf/
This is what I mean by humble.