[desktop-discuss] Re: Re: HTML Composer revisited

[Jerry K]

Hello Christian,

Thanks for your email.  I am sorry if my comment below is vague.  I am currently 
with a small company and wear many technical hats.  My primary job is Network 
and Unix administration.  My primary desktop system is Solaris and I spend 90-95 
percent of my time there.

I have drifted off on to other tangents, but let me solidify thing by stating 
that NVU, or a similar application, would meet many of my WYSIWYG HTML needs.

My other comments, along the Xen line, were really not on topic for this 
discussion but you are correct that is is a neat technical stunt to perform. 
But really, the point I would make is that if a basic utility is included in 
Solaris, thats great, I will use that and move on with life.  If nothing is 
included, and I am going to have to jump through a couple of hoops to keep 
everything on one system, then I am going to make sure that I can use 
DreamWeaver, Photoshop, etc...

Jerry Kemp


Christian Kelly wrote:
>> I have been following the Solaris Xen discussion group:
>> 
>> xen-discuss at opensolaris.org
>> 
>> for a while now, and they seem to be doing some great things.  As far as 
>> this discussion goes, Xen+Solaris+MacOS X/intel running DreamWeaver would
>> be wonderful.
> 
> I don't understand this line of thought. I can't help thinking, why would
> anyone bother?  If you are using DreamWeaver on MacOSX, you are probably not
> the type of user who would use Solaris at all. Except, maybe, if you are a
> technical person who occasionaly uses DreamWeaver and its a neat technical
> stunt to perform. This a question about the Solaris desktop really anyway. If
> you start saying, "ah, well, you can do that in an OSX install in Xen, or in
> a BrandZ linux zone", you end up never improving the actual desktop.
> 
> As I see it, it basically boils down to two types of user. A: 'I need to
> knock out a quick html page', or B: 'I need to design a whole website with
> all sorts of bells a whistles'. If user B knows what he/she is doing,
> realistically, they are going to get a Windows/OSX box with some professional
> package like DreamWeaver. As much as I would love to see an application like
> this running natively on Solaris, its not going to happena any time soon. So
> you are left with user A. Something like NVU is fine in this case IMHO.
> 
> -Christian
> 
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