Posted by David Segall on 01/22/58 11:38

Bob <uctraing@ultranet.com> wrote:

>I need to find an HTML /Page editor for an associate. Mostly he will
>be working with existing templates to enter content (text and
>graphics) in a rough WYSIWYG mode. He will need to be able to use
>basic HTML tags (formatting, links), use CSS text formatting with a
>link (pre-defined) style file, insert pictures and links in WYSIWYG
>mode, work with basic tables, table column dragging would be good. It
>needs WYSIWYG (reasonably well done) and HTML source mode. It needs to
>_not_ trash existing Javascript hooks but does not need to create any
>JS or CSS-P capabilities.
>
>Ideas? MS-FP would work but it has a lot of overhead that you have to
>tolerate and periodically strip and he's anti-MS (Linux guy) so he
>won't want that (I use MS-FP, I know :-) . I tried NVU and it is very
>close to what I need but it does not handle CSS on <p> tags - all the
>CSS text formatting has to be done on <span> tags unless you work in
>HTML mode. HTML mode is difficult because when you switch into it, it
>always places you at the top of the source - not where you are editing
>in the WYSIWYG mode. Unusable on large pages.
>
>Shareware would be best, I need to test drive before any purchase is
>made.
You can get a thirty day trial of Dreamweaver
<http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=dreamweaver>
but they don't have a Linux version.

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