Converting a MS Frontpage website to standard HTML

Victor Odhner plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 30 Apr 2003 20:07:01 -0700


Lee Einer wrote:
> What Linux WYSIWYG web editor would you all recommend ...

I did try Quanta and was pleased with it -- it's probably
your best bet.

Quanta would put me in the raw code corresponding to
the WYSIWYG position, and I think it also highlighted
code elements.  I think it also gave me both modes
in parallel windows.  It was helpful in showing me a
rendered view of Chinese text I was rearranging, since
there is no way to correlate those &#nnnnn; ideographs
with the visible symbols!   hailunkaile.org is my work --
I can't read it though.   ;-)

But my PC fried its brain due to a bad motherboard fan
some six months ago and will no longer boot Linux, so
recently I've been using Mozilla's composer.  I've been
quite pleased with its rather clean output.  There are
times when it gets confused and I have to pop into its
raw-code editor.  I have some gripes in raw mode:
(1) It doesn't highlight the code elements, as Mozilla's
"View Source" mode does.
(2) When I switch to raw code from WYSIWYG format, it
goes to the top of the file rather than where I was.
(3) There doesn't seem to be any "Find" to locate the
code element you want to tweak.

But really, it's very adequate for routine composing
of HTML pages.

BTW, I definitely "think" in raw HTML since I write
CGIs and have coded in VI since 1995.  I really got
into WYSIWYG when I found myself composing a document
in MS Word for a Unix/Web oriented team, and realized
that Composer would be a great way to pump out a
document in the most-sharable format.

OH HEY!  Is there any way to run KDE in Windows?
Some sort of Linux-over-Windows emulator?  My PC is
hot enough that performance would be OK, and I could
use apps like Quanta.  (I'm kinda back on my feet so
I really need to pay someone to fix that motherboard.)

Vic