Re: [PLUG] My Holy Quest for a WYSIWYG HTML Word Processor

[JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On 1/25/23 10:16 PM, Steve Litt via plug wrote:
> I found out the answer to "why is this program missing from the
> market?"

Since when did "it doesn't actually work" remove anything from the market?  :-)


> when I needed to maintain all my web pages made by Frontpage,
> Netscape Composer, Netscape Gold, KDE Kompozer, and several other
> supposedly WYSIWYG web authoring tools. They all produce unmaintainable
> HTML

Full stop.

> , when you switch from one WYSIWYG to another over the years, as
> you'll certainly need to do because good software goes bad or
> distros drop one software and put in another, it won't be WYSIWYG
> anymore.

Heck, it probably won't be *readable* anymore.

> The "what you get" part requires valid and validated HTML and
> CSS, and I'd be totally shocked if any WYSIWYG product writes valid
> HTML. My experience with WYSIWYG products is that they don't properly
> use CSS, needlessly complexifying your document.

Oh yes, the code from any of them is/was atrocious and incompatible with anything else.  Speaking of atrocious and incompatible, I think Turd used to be able to Export as HTML, with results exactly as good as you'd expect.

Later,
JP
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