HTML Editors

~terry Wed, Jul 24, 1996 (11:42) seed

Creating your own web site is now as imperative as having your own e-mail address. What was Considered extremely esoteric by the general public just one year ago is now commonplace -- companies are developing web sites for marketing and selling their products and services, students are creating web pages for classes, job hunters are using the web to get companies to check their on-line resumes out, socially maladroit individuals are finding equally reserved and reticent partners via web pages, the list goes on... With so great a demand, it has also become imperative for products to be developed that make sense out of the somewhat confusing Hyper Text Markup Language. As a result of the high demand and equally high need, the HTML Editor market has emerged to become one of the most intensely competitive sub-industries of the Internet. Users can now find HTML Editors geared to first time 'netters, moderately inclined 'netizens, and even the most supreme of webmasters. In fact, whatever your needs, there's bound to be an HTML Editor available that will meet them. The following are brief descriptions of each application featured on the HTML Editors.

~terry Wed, Jul 24, 1996 (20:44) #1

Above Review by Forrest Stroud

~terry Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:39) #2

My favorite, and the favorite around the Spring and NetRabbit, is HotDog Professional. I'll talk in more detail in the HotDog item. I haven't seen a wysiwyg app that I like yet, although FrontPage is a step in this direction. Amazingly, I watched someone create some web pages with Netscape Gold the other day and it worked pretty well.

~KK Thu, Aug 15, 1996 (16:14) #3

I take your word for it.

~ian Fri, Aug 16, 1996 (00:27) #4

My favourite HTML editor is vi, with collection of shell scripts, but the one I usually recommend is HotMetal. I recommend HotMetal because it is a good editor, and I do not know many HTML editors (there could easily be better one output there). At any point, you can easily find out what elments are allowed -- for example, whether you can put a list at any given point. You do not have know about DTDs and such stuff. The reason I prefer vi is that I know the parts of the HTML DTD that I need, and usually do not do anything fancy. vi lets me pipe a range of lines through a shell script, replacing the range with the output of the shell script. For example, if I want a list of anchors, I can type a two-column tab-separated list of URLs and descriptions, mark the line range (say a and b), and issue the :'a,'b!h a|h ul This pipes the range of line one through my shell script to get a list of anchors (element A), pipes that output through the script again to get an unordered list (element UL), and replaces the original lines with the final output. You can see why a part time programmer (guess who?) would like this, but it will also be obvious why I recommend an alternative solution to many people.

~Neptune Fri, Aug 16, 1996 (23:00) #5

I tried Hotdog Pro and Netscape Gold, and although HotDog is much more powerful it does not really have a WYSIWYG interface that runs simultaneously with its editor. Netscape Gold does. Being a person who still believes that you should have your Webpage acessable to at least the majority of the masses, I don't believe in putting a lot of the latest bells and whistles into webpages. THEREFORE, I find myself using Netscape Gold instead of Hotdog Pro.

~terry Sat, Aug 17, 1996 (00:52) #6

As mentioned in the Hotdog Pro item, HotDog is moving toward wysiwyg.

~LightningJack Thu, Nov 7, 1996 (19:56) #7

I'm in search of an HTML color chooser. Does anyone know of a good one, or a place where I might look to find one? (I tried www.cwsapps.com already and couldn't find one there.) TIA Dan

~terry Thu, Nov 7, 1996 (20:10) #8

Send an email to bhg@www.spring.com. He may know of one.

~kendall Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (10:44) #9

I am looking for an updated HTML checker. The ones I know about are out of date - do not recognize new commands, think paragraphs and line breaks need to be closed, etc. thanks katy kendall kpk@ornl.gov

~oz Thu, Jan 9, 1997 (00:35) #10

Just a quick note to say that Version 2.0 of NACHOS (Not A Childs Html Organising System) has been released. Windows 95 only, but well worth a look. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~krisp/nachos Oh yeah, and it has a decent HTML color picker

~Ben Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (10:22) #11

Has anyone experience in converting hundreds of MS-Word files into HTML. Which tool is the best to perform automatically sets of MS-Word files with few user interaction during the process (it should include graphics conversion). Any suggestion?

~terry Thu, Jan 16, 1997 (18:03) #12

Internet Assistant for MS Word! The perfect app for this.

~Ben Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (11:13) #13

In addition to Internet Assistant for MS Word, I've also found a new tool for performing the conversion of many MS-Word files. Here's the URL http://www.solutionsoft.com/w2w.htm Sincerely

~ian Tue, Mar 18, 1997 (23:35) #14

If you want to check HTML files, you can do it with "SP", a free SGML from http://www.jclark.com/ or with OmniMark, a commercial package from OmniMark Technologies Corporation -- http://www.omnimark.com/ Both SP and OmniMark use a DTD that describes the document structure. you can get the HTML 3.2 DTD ( http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/Wilbur/ ) from the World Wide Web Consortium ( http://www.w3.org/ ). SP is an excellent SGML parser but does not have all of abilities that OmniMark have. Omnimark is an very powerful programming language for document processing -- I have used it to convert WinHelp RTF files to SGML.

~Ann Mon, Feb 22, 1999 (00:07) #15

I have a Word 97-HTML question. I'm trying to save a file from the internet, then open it up on Word and look at the tags, but Word keeps pretending it is a browser and interpretting the tags as formatting. Is there a way to look at the source file of a web document using Word 97??? Or will it always turn bold tags into bold formatting? How do you see the tags?

~KitchenManager Fri, May 28, 1999 (13:51) #16

click on view then click on HTML Source

~KitchenManager Fri, May 28, 1999 (13:52) #17

anyone else played with HomeSite 4.0?

~terry Thu, Jul 1, 1999 (14:09) #18

A little bit, I got it with the Allaire stuff. It's ok, it may be better now.

~KitchenManager Sun, Jul 4, 1999 (02:46) #19

it's got some nice features that are easy to use if you are used to the world o' gui's instead of the real world...

~MarciaH Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (02:16) #20

...what's a gui?

~sprin5 Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (09:05) #21

graphical user interface. pronoucned "gooey"

~MarciaH Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (13:22) #22

I figured it was "gooey"...but not that it was a graphical user interface. Thanks! I would ask you how and why it is used, but I guess I can hunt up that information for myself lest I look too stupid to chew gum and walk at the same time.

~aschuth Wed, Feb 16, 2000 (17:17) #23

Oh. THAT'S why these folks stop to blow a bubble!

~MarciaH Wed, Feb 16, 2000 (17:19) #24

You did not know? Now you do!!!

~aschuth Thu, Feb 17, 2000 (16:48) #25

Lemme stop for a moment and think about this one...

~MarciaH Thu, Feb 17, 2000 (16:55) #26

Just don't step on the discarded bubblegum...

~aschuth Fri, Feb 18, 2000 (16:40) #27

Eh wot?

~MarciaH Fri, Feb 18, 2000 (16:52) #28

(Have you not been reading this intelligent conversation we have been having about those too stupid to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time?!) You don't want to be the victim of one who chose to walk rather than chew...

~aschuth Fri, Feb 18, 2000 (17:47) #29

Wait, gotta stop and think about this again.... hmh....

~MarciaH Fri, Feb 18, 2000 (18:10) #30

*laugh*

~aschuth Sat, Feb 19, 2000 (17:23) #31

...no no, don't disturb me, eh, wait, I'm, uh, hold on a minute...

~MarciaH Sat, Feb 19, 2000 (17:45) #32

(holding on...)