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Re: [trinity-users] Re: [users] WYSIWYG HTML editor that outputs clean HTML code?

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:37:32 +0100
Anno domini 2019 Wed, 30 Jan 10:27:58 -0600
 J Leslie Turriff scripsit:
> On 2019-01-24 01:23:39 Felix Miata wrote:
> > Kate Draven composed on 2019-01-24 02:08 (UTC-0500):
> > > Aye, it seems opensuse doesn't have it. pclos has it.
> > > I don't know if it's useful to you.
> > > Also, you can try installing Seamonkey,which has the same web editor as
> > > part of the suite. Assuming opensuse has it as a package.
> >
> > I use openSUSE and SeaMonkey, but I wouldn't expect "clean" HTML code from
> > it, or any other WYSIWYG editor. All my HTML editing is done with plain
> > text editors.
> 
> 	I agree.  The problem is with the WYSIWYG concept itself; the code generator
> doesn't have any intelligence, either syntactic or semantic, so when one is
> creating or maintaining a web page with such a package, it can't normalize
> the markup, it just keeps inserting More markup to make the final page look
> right.
> 	It's possibly worthwhile to use such a tool when all one needs is a very
> simple webpage, but then, it's just as easy to write the markup directly with
> a text editor.
> 
> Leslie
 
Have you ever looked at "zim", the desktop wiki? Besides note taking etc. (what I use it for on a daily base) it can be used to generate static html sites. No extra stuff added, just the templates you defined. The zim homepage was created with that, too: http://zim-wiki.org/

Nik



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