From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 14 14:09:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA25798 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 14:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA25320 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 14:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA26138; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 16:01:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 16:01:23 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Keith Walker cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Web Authoring Tools In-Reply-To: <199610141427.HAA07232@phobos.walker.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Keith Walker wrote: > What about using Netscape Gold? It isn't what i would want to use for > a large project, but at least it's WYSIWYG. [cough, sputter, gag, cough, choke, choke...] Not if you want to generate anything resembling HTML. Gold can't even get do the right thing with basic HTML elements elements whose syntax and semantics were nailed down at the beginning of (www) time and haven't changed since. WYSIWYG and SGML is somewhat of a contradiction in terms, but I maintain there is *some* utility of a WYSYWYG approach with respect to HTML, particularly in the context of tables. However, stay away from NS Gold--it only generates NML (Netscape Markup Language). -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================