Web development editor

[Kevin Cozens]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> HTML editing by definition is NOT wysiwig given you only get that
> by testing it in all the different browsers you want it to work with.
> They each render things slightly differently, since HTML is about content
> tagging, not formating and presentation.

Another reason why WYS is no longer WYG is the use of CSS based pages. A 
change to the CSS can radically change the look of a page. Its hard enough 
getting the CSS right so that two different browsers present a page the 
same way. In the past I have found it was too much to expect a GUI based 
web page editor to be a decent editor and to display web pages close to how 
a viewer would display the page let alone being able to properly render CSS 
based pages.

Some years ago I looked briefly at Front Page and Dreamweaver (both Windows 
programs). I found the generated HTML code was a bit of a mess. It was 
machine readable but not meant to be human readable due to no use of 
newlines or indentation to break up the HTML in to easily readable chunks. 
It was fine if all changes were to be done using the GUI program but not if 
you just wanted to quickly make some minor change to a page (ie. to fix a 
typo). When I looked at Nvu (under Linux) it seemed much better about 
producing human readable HTML files and allowed you to work in GUI mode but 
still be able to open a tab and alter the HTML source without leaving the 
Nvu program.

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