[desktop-discuss] HTML Composer revisited

[Christof Pintaske]

Bob Doolittle wrote:
 > I searched the archives, but the last mention I
 > see of an HTML Composer was back in March, and
 > "nvu" was planned.
 >
 > AFAICT, "nvu" is a dead project now (or maybe it's
 > in the process of coming back to life), and is not
 > being considered as part of the OpenSolaris
 > desktop any more (not that I see any mention of that
 > on this discussion alias :-().
 >
 > What's the community consensus (assuming there is
 > such a thing in this case), or at least majority feeling,
 > regarding an HTML Composer to be included on the
 > desktop?
 >
 > Do people feel that vi/xemacs (or Star/OpenOffice,
 > or bluefish) is sufficient, or should OpenSolaris provide
 > a good WYSIWYG HTML Composer as part of the
 > standard desktop?

using vi/emacs for editing html is not to everybodies liking. It's more 
of a developer tool.

StarOffice/OpenOffice.org does not support HTML4 and CSS. As far as I 
know there are no plans to improve on that.  It works fine to save 
StarOffice/OpenOffice.org documents in html but it's not targeted as a 
professional web content editor.

I never tried Bluefish but it didn't look like a WYSIWIG editor to me.

In terms of feature I found Quanta+ quite interesting. However, it kept 
crashing on me with an annoying frequency the last time I checked it 
(about a year ago). And of course it needs KDE.

So what choices are there ?

- Christof