Nico Schuyt said:
Have a look at Blink on
http://wojanware.com/
A free wisiwyg editor and very easy to use.
If it's free then why does it require a valid email address to recieve an
unlock key?
Ok I'll bite, having seen this thing mentioned here before <hastily
constructs very temporary email address/>
Hmmm. As I suspected. We have three tabs here. The left hand one, "Normal"
is an instantiation of the standard Internet Explorer Server control, as it
the right hand one, the difference being that the left hand one has edit
enabled. Simple stuff, detailed in MSDN.
The center tab is more interesting. This is a standard RichEdit control with
some syntax highlighting. The code for this can of course be obtained
directly from somewhere like codeguru.
What else. Ah yes, on the right a document tree, no doubt extracted from the
IE control, directly into a standard treeview control. A property list,
detailing those deprecated properties one may apply to the HTML elements on
the page.
Lets type in some stuff. Lets change the colour of the text: Bingo ( or
should I say <blink> ) depricated <font> elements. Change some other things,
more deprecated elements. Not a mention anywhere of being able to use a
style.
The menu bar? Lets insert a table (presumably for layout). Lets split the
page up into frames.
Why is the download 10 megabytes plus? I think I saw fireworks being
installed there somewhere. is not Fireworks a pay for item, subject to
copyright? Maybe there is a "runtime" version
I really see nothing that can not be done with notepad or a nice syntax
colouring editor and a selection of browsers. The BIG thrust of <blink> of
course is that is uses IE as its viewer, not My Favourite Browsers. There
are a few nice things like the dropdown "what tag do you want" thing (which
breaks as soon as I roll my mouse wheel to scroll the list) but it comes
nowhere near real editors like <shudder> .net </shudder>, which completes
the element for you and automatically indents things. Oh, hang on, <bink>
*does* complete the element, providing one does not type the closing > in
the opening tag. What about realtime validation, like .net does?
I really think that this thing should not be given to newbies. It encourages
badly constructed and deprecated code, just like FrontPage.
Cheers
Richard.