[PLUG] GNU WYSIWYG HTML/XML Editor (need your opinion)

AthlonRob AthlonRob at axpr.net
Mon Jan 31 07:04:04 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 22:25 -0800, Alex Daniloff wrote:
> Could somebody please recommend an 
> Open Source WYSIWYG HTML/XML Editor

AFAIK, nvu is about your only option.  http://nvu.com

It's based around Mozilla Composer code.

> which would have all or some of the following functionalities,
> listed in the order of importance:
> 
> 1. Uses primarely CSS for page layouts

nvu *does* use CSS, but it also doesn't seem to understand <div> tags
very well and utilizes tables for basic layout (which, imho, is very
icky, even if "everybody else does it").

> 2. True page layout representation

I guess it supports this.

> 3. Support for Perl scripting

There's definitely no Perl support in nvu.  You'll have a hard time
finding a WYSIWYG editor that supports scripting like that for dynamic
content period.  FrontPage supports FrontPage extensions (I don't think
it supports ASP) and I *think* DreamWeaver has some rudimentary PHP
support.  IMHO, dynamic content is best done in a text editor of some
sort, not a WYSIWYG editor.

I like Eclipse for my PHP/MySQL/HTML jobs.

> 4. Does not use any proprietary or non-standard tags

Like what?

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