HTML Editor w/ WYSIWYG & Manual Editing

[Trish]

I just had a bad experience using MS Word as an HTML editor. It
bloated more than 200% so I could barely recognize the essential
statements; and it introduced more than 14,000 errors. Also, although
it displayed fine in Firefox, it was unintelligible to IE. I spent
the day trying to reduce the errors to the point wherel HTML Tidy
could finish a pass without aborting. Finally I succeeded. No
errors. It displays fine in Firefox & IE.

BUT, my question is, what can I use for an editor now? I'd like to be
able to insert table rows and columns with the ease of MS Word, but I
want no errors and I want an HTML code that I can still modify
myself. What can you recommend?

Thanks a lot.

Trish

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

I just had a bad experience using MS Word as an HTML editor. It
bloated more than 200% so I could barely recognize the essential
statements; and it introduced more than 14,000 errors. Also, although
it displayed fine in Firefox, it was unintelligible to IE. I spent
the day trying to reduce the errors to the point wherel HTML Tidy
could finish a pass without aborting. Finally I succeeded. No
errors. It displays fine in Firefox & IE.

BUT, my question is, what can I use for an editor now? I'd like to be
able to insert table rows and columns with the ease of MS Word, but I
want no errors and I want an HTML code that I can still modify
myself. What can you recommend?

Thanks a lot.

Amazing how many folk who use Google to access Usenet never Google! Just
Google this group and your will find enough posts on the subject to keep
you reading for hours.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

I just had a

multi-posting. Please don't do that; cross-post if necessary. See:
http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#xpost

I just gave you an answer in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html

 

[Blinky the Shark]

multi-posting. Please don't do that; cross-post if necessary. See:
http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#xpost

GGer, Beau.

 

[Neredbojias]

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:49:57 GMT
Blinky the Shark scribed:

GGer, Beau.

Shark-growling sounds a lot like gargling.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

GGer, Beau.

I knew that, of course. (Dialog tells me instantly by showing the
header line with a bright green background.)

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

I knew that, of course. (Dialog tells me instantly by showing the
header line with a bright green background.)

Should be a bright *red* background.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Should be a bright *red* background.

I thought about that. "Danger, Will Robinson!" But then I acquiesced
and chose green, 'cause most of the Gropers surely *are* green.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

I thought about that. "Danger, Will Robinson!" But then I acquiesced
and chose green, 'cause most of the Gropers surely *are* green.

I'd say both approaches are valid.

 

[Ciaran]

I just had a bad experience using MS Word as an HTML editor. It
bloated more than 200% so I could barely recognize the essential
statements; and it introduced more than 14,000 errors. Also, although
it displayed fine in Firefox, it was unintelligible to IE. I spent
the day trying to reduce the errors to the point wherel HTML Tidy
could finish a pass without aborting. Finally I succeeded. No
errors. It displays fine in Firefox & IE.

BUT, my question is, what can I use for an editor now? I'd like to be
able to insert table rows and columns with the ease of MS Word, but I
want no errors and I want an HTML code that I can still modify
myself. What can you recommend?

Thanks a lot.

Trish

Use Frontpage or Dreamweaver. Word sucks a lot. Frontpage is only slightly
better. Dreamweaver is pretty good but it's pricey.
Ciarán

 

[Robert Baer]

I just had a bad experience using MS Word as an HTML editor. It
bloated more than 200% so I could barely recognize the essential
statements; and it introduced more than 14,000 errors. Also, although
it displayed fine in Firefox, it was unintelligible to IE. I spent
the day trying to reduce the errors to the point wherel HTML Tidy
could finish a pass without aborting. Finally I succeeded. No
errors. It displays fine in Firefox & IE.

BUT, my question is, what can I use for an editor now? I'd like to be
able to insert table rows and columns with the ease of MS Word, but I
want no errors and I want an HTML code that I can still modify
myself. What can you recommend?

Thanks a lot.

Trish

To begin with, as far as i am concerned, M$ Nerd is a POS not worthy
of co-mingling with poop in a septic tank.
M$ Nerd and Insanely F*kedup are *both* sold my Micro$uck, so what
the hell do you expect?
They are so big and care so little about quality or their custoners,
that you will never see any product from them that works properly, much
less "knows" much about any one of their other products.
"Bloated more than 200%" is typical; i have seen worse.
"14,000 errors"? you lucky dog that ther were so few.

You want HTML code that you can modify?
Use a *dumb* test editor!
Or one of the Netscape Composers (or similar); crappy but infinitely
better than Nerd.

 

[Robert Baer]

Use Frontpage or Dreamweaver. Word sucks a lot. Frontpage is only slightly
better. Dreamweaver is pretty good but it's pricey.
Ciarán

Frontpage "slightly" better?
Not by a hell of a lot by any means; still sh*t from M$.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Use a *dumb* test editor!

Yup, I use a test editor myself.

What do you use to compose web pages, Robert?

 

[Robert Baer]

Robert Baer wrote:




Yup, I use a test editor myself.

What do you use to compose web pages, Robert?

I use KEDIT most of the time.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

I use KEDIT most of the time.

Try Crimson Editor...
http://crimsoneditor.com/

 

[Glenn S.]

AOL Press is an oldie but a goodie.

http://www.daviestrek.com/software/aolpress/

 

[biff]

Yup, I use a test editor myself.

What do you use to compose web pages, Robert?

$10 says it ain't nothing by Microsoft


biff

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

AOL Press is an oldie but a goodie.

http://www.daviestrek.com/software/aolpress/

Not if you used it to create that page as a sample of its output.

 

[Glenn S.]

Not if you used it to create that page as a sample of its output.

I didn't create that page. Don't care who did.