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

From: J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@...>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:33:16 -0600
On 2019-01-30 11:37:32 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> 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

	That sounds useful; I will take a look.  Thank you.

Leslie