Seeking comparison of WYSIWYG html editors

[Franklin]

At http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_WEBDESIGN.php there is a
large selection of *fourteen* WYSIWYG html editors!

Has anyone got a comparison of the relative merits of some of the
better WYSIWYG editors in this list?

To shorten the list, I cross-matched pricelessware's WYSWYG editor
recommendations with those on Nonags but I still ended up with four
products which gives me more than I know what to start with!

Nvu by Linspire Inc at http://www.nvu.com/
Matizha Sublime at http://www.matizha.com/en/index.html
Selida at http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
IMS WebDwarf at http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/

Is there a "best of breed" WYSWYG editor which I should start with?
My current need is to write relatively simple html for use in web-
based bulletin board postings. However soon I will need rather more
than this for when I will be publishing web pages onto my site.

Thank you for any help.

 

[Steven Burn]

Is there a "best of breed" WYSWYG editor which I should start with?
My current need is to write relatively simple html for use in web-
based bulletin board postings. However soon I will need rather more
than this for when I will be publishing web pages onto my site.

Can't stand WYSIWYG editors myself but, most would probably choose NVU if it
helps?

--

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[Iain Cheyne]

However soon I will need rather more
than this for when I will be publishing web pages onto my site.

I know this is not what you asked for, but have you thought of a content
management system like WordPress? There are lots of options at
www.opensourcecms.com.

To answer your question, I tried a few freeware HTML WYSIWYG editors, and
my favourite was Selida.

 

[wald]

At http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_WEBDESIGN.php there is
a large selection of *fourteen* WYSIWYG html editors!

Has anyone got a comparison of the relative merits of some of
the better WYSIWYG editors in this list?

I haven't tried them all, and from your shorter list I've only
worked with WebDwarf and NVU.

I would go for NVU in any case, since at least it has made an
explicit commitment to generating standards-compliant web code.

Regards,
Wald

 

[Mike Andrade]

Nvu by Linspire Inc at http://www.nvu.com/
Matizha Sublime at http://www.matizha.com/en/index.html
Selida at http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
IMS WebDwarf at http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/

Nvu.

Forget the rest.

 

[Michael Laplante]

At http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_WEBDESIGN.php there is a
large selection of *fourteen* WYSIWYG html editors!

Has anyone got a comparison of the relative merits of some of the
better WYSIWYG editors in this list?

A subject I have researched extensively. . . At the answer is. . . it
depends.

For a quick'n'dirty project I still use reliable old Frontpage Express. The
code isn't strictly compliant but it's fast. It's also easy to go "behind
the scenes" and handcode the page quickly too. Note that it doesn't provide
support for newer tags or CSS.

Sticking strickly with your list though, I would substitute it with NVu. NVu
uses CSS so is a little harder to tweak via handcoding. The HTML is still
relatively easy to see and understand.

Both Sublime and Selida crashed on me frequently enough for me to forget
about them.

If you want "special effects" and dead easy WYSIWYG go for Web Dwarf. (After
testing it, I put out for their shareware product Sitespinner.) You can do
some amazing stuff that you simply can't do -- easily -- with NVu. The
downside is that tweaking the code afterwards is very difficult. Also, all
those special effects come at the expense of code bloat.

M

 

[Mike Andrade]

If you want "special effects"

Special effects are for the movies and television.

 

[Michael Laplante]

At http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_WEBDESIGN.php there is a
large selection of *fourteen* WYSIWYG html editors!

Has anyone got a comparison of the relative merits of some of the
better WYSIWYG editors in this list?

Forgot to mention. . . you may want to check out WYSIWYG CSS editors.
Typically these set up CSS elements in a WYSIWYG table. It then publishes a
"sample" page. At that point you usually only have to changed the content
and you can do that via handcoding or one of the other editors on your HTML
list. I tried one called DTP that I quite liked. I only stopped using it
when I purchased a commercial product.

M

 

[Michael Laplante]

Special effects are for the movies and television.

Okay.

 

[wald]

A subject I have researched extensively. . . At the answer is. .
. it depends.

For a quick'n'dirty project I still use reliable old Frontpage
Express.

I would strongly suggest not to use this... our current division
website was created using Frontpage Express, and I can't tell you
what a mess it is to maintain it.

All HTML pages are at least 3 times the size they could have been,
all thanks to Frontpage's mindless inserting of empty <font> tags,
HTML style attributes, empty table elements, and other cruft.

With all respect, Frontpage Express is unforgivably outdated. Even
if it's fast, it will give you a headache in the long run.

Regards,
Wald

 

[Bob Adkins]

At http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_WEBDESIGN.php there is a
large selection of *fourteen* WYSIWYG html editors!

Has anyone got a comparison of the relative merits of some of the
better WYSIWYG editors in this list?

To shorten the list, I cross-matched pricelessware's WYSWYG editor
recommendations with those on Nonags but I still ended up with four
products which gives me more than I know what to start with!

Nvu by Linspire Inc at http://www.nvu.com/
Matizha Sublime at http://www.matizha.com/en/index.html
Selida at http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
IMS WebDwarf at http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/

Is there a "best of breed" WYSWYG editor which I should start with?
My current need is to write relatively simple html for use in web-
based bulletin board postings. However soon I will need rather more
than this for when I will be publishing web pages onto my site.

Thank you for any help.

In the standalone category, I like NVU. However, I prefer the editor in
OpenOffice.org.

-- Bob