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

From: dep <dep@...>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 03:38:49 +0000
said Kate Draven:
| > 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
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| > > > 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
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| very
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| > > > 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
| >
| > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| I checked out Zim. I like it so far. I need to play with it a little
| more. It seems promising.
|
| Thank you, it's greatly appreciated.
|
| Kate

It really *is* a cool application, isn't it. I've played with it a little 
and have a feeling that it has some dandy off-lable uses. Would be great 
if there were a way to set it up, for instance, for IPTC and EXIF data -- 
only editor I have for that id Gthumb, which is kind of dropping off the 
edge of the world.

-- 
dep

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