[WEB4LIB] Re: Favorite HTML editor and page authoring softwar e?

[Linda Absher (absher)]

I concur with Thomas over this; as an intranet librarian, I oversee 300 web
publishers within my company, many of them using a myriad of HTML editors.
After spending way too much time helping publishers trying to modify existing
HTML documents with FrontPage, we reevaluated our HTML editor
recommendations.  We decided upon HotMetaL PRO as our WYSIWYG due to in large
part of its functionality being very similar to Word and the fact that HM
does not try to mangle pre-existing HTML coding by adding extraneous tags.

LInda

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Linda Absher / absher at sequent.com / 503.578.3485
Intranet Librarian / Sequent Computer Systems / Beaverton, OR
"You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people
sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing
wild animals as librarians."  --Monty Python

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Thomas Dowling [SMTP:tdowling at ohiolink.edu]
> Sent:	Thursday, February 18, 1999 5:28 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	[WEB4LIB] Re: Favorite HTML editor and page authoring
> software?
> 
> 
> >Although most of my HTML is done in a text editor, I'm thinking of
> getting
> >a program that will help write cgi scripts, as I'm told Front Page does.
> 
> FrontPage helps with CGI scripts?  I wasn't aware of that--I thought it
> only steered you toward ASP.
> 
> >
> >Would anyone care to recommend their favorites, or steer me clear of the
> >ones they found difficult or frustrating to use?
> >
> >Ideally, I want to have one that will allow me to "resist" its
> suggestions
> >about my current HTML.  I've found that with Pagemill and some other
> >web writing software, if you take an existing, reasonably clean HTML page
> >and try to add new text in the editor, it will also alter all your
> >previous tags, even if your HTML works and is is relatively clean.  (For
> >example, I find that existing tables will get new spacing because some
> >editors insist that a <P> tag start all text within a <TD> box.
> >
> 
> The last time I tested this, every graphical HTML editor I tried, except
> one, made substantive (and usually invalid) changes to my markup without
> telling me.  The one exception was HoTMetaL Pro.  Several tag-based
> editors were happy to open my existing HTML and save it without silently
> revising my markup.
> 
> I originally posted this to Web4Lib in September of 1997, and it's in the
> archive as
> <URL:http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/9709/0389.html>.  I
> looked at some of the available editors again last fall and didn't observe
> much change.
> 
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
> 
>