From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 07:51:05 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFEB16A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 07:51:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp818.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp818.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 925E943D3F for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 07:51:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@spymac.com) Received: from unknown (HELO smogmonster.com) (jtinnin@pacbell.net@64.171.3.242 with login) by smtp818.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2005 07:51:04 -0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 23:51:02 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <42305572.50506@fusemail.com> <4233E4E0.5020904@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <4233E4E0.5020904@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503122351.03483.krinklyfig@spymac.com> cc: bsdzz Subject: Re: Decent HTML editor? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 07:51:05 -0000 On Saturday 12 March 2005 10:59 pm, bsdzz wrote: > Is there a simple HTML editor that is known to be pretty good in the > ports tree? > > I've been using Abiword for wordprocessing, and it has a "Save as > HTML" feature which I plan to try. I was just curious if there was > something else I should try using. I'm not using OpenOffice, as it > seems a little bloated lately. My desktop is Fluxbox, though I have > Gnome installed. Maybe KDE has a really good one? I prefer to keep > my system lean if possible (its a P3-650 laptop). Are you talking about an HTML generator? As for editing pretty much any web code, I prefer vim with syntax highlighting, then I use Firefox with HTML Tidy to validate. I know, that's pretty old school (I used to use Tidy with other tools for validation, and sometimes still do), but it's simple and efficient and I can use it pretty much anywhere. I've never been happy with any HTML generator, so I'm not too familiar with all the varieties - Dreamweaver is the only one I personally know to be decent, though it's commercial and not ported to *BSD. Quanta (now part of kdewebdev) is a pretty decent gui web development tool by KDE, have used it on occasion, though from what I gather it's more useful if you have a large project and/or use something besides flat HTML, like php. If you just need simple, flat HTML and you really don't want to learn how to code it yourself, you might want to try Amaya. /usr/ports/www/amaya - http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ I haven't done more than play around with it, but the code should at least be better than most office-suite generators, as it's made by w3c. - jt