Use Amaya! Even PCWeek recommends it! -- WAS: IE/Netscape Authoring ... From: "Barry Reicherter" <breicherter@ex-pressnet.com
I can't stand what FP does to code. We banned it on our web team. The reason I asked about FP Express was because it was a free utility that comes with IE and getting Communicator into organizations that have standardized on IE might be tough. I'll look into WebDAV more. Thanks for the reply.
From the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) themselves, it is the ONLY TRUE WYSIWYG HTML Editor (i.e. no "preview" BS like IE/Netscape, TRUE WYSIWYG) and produces 100% pure DTD-defined [X]HTML 4.0 with CSS 1 support. It also supports the full HTTP 1.1 spec (for compliant HTTP 1.1 servers like uploading and security). Since it supports ALL HTML 4.0 tags, there is no reason to manually edit your code. And even if you do (and interject non-standard HTML), I have found it still keeps the code nice and pretty (I use OpenSource GVIM on both UN*X and Windows, simple but nice syntax colored HTML editing -- but rarely needed when using Amaya).
LIKE ZOPE, IT IS OPENSOURCE! And runs on numerous platforms. Here is the *VERY FAVORABLE* ZD PCWeek Review: http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,406026,00.html One thing ZD liked about Amaya OVER EVERYTHING ELSE is the use of Styles like a word processor does. Highlight and apply ... very simple, but very powerful. And best of all, produces 100% standard HTML! The only thing they found wrong with Amaya was using existing documents that do not conform to a DTD. I love how they say "Web pages with nonstandard HTML don't display properly." All I can say is how are nonstandard HTML pages supposed to be displayed 'normally'??? Compared to what??? Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc...??? Basically, if you are going to write non-standard HTML, you need to write a DTD. And Netscape and Microsoft need to learn how to do that for their respective editors (of course, they forget this little responsibility!). That way, what you see is what you get. Until then, Amaya is the lone star in that crowd. -- The BS -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org,bjs@crc.com Software Engineer http://www.smithconcepts.com/legal.html ************************************************************** UNIX is to operating systems what democracy is to nations, not the greatest design, but the best we know of. But in the case of both, there are only as good as the level of freedom people have to change them. As technology has brought about the need and feasibility for "true" democracy, technology has also brought about the need as well as feasibility for "true" UNIX.