Free XHTML editor could help e-bookers
Did Bill Gates invent the Amaya editor to make people appreciate FrontPage and stop caring about Web standards and freeware?
Amaya is the free WYSIWYG software from hell with an interface that only Rube Goldberg’s hacker grandson could love. Forget about Amaya in most cases if you want to do XHTML Web sites or e-books. It’s too sucky.
But now there’s a new kid on the block–the free Nvu editor, also WYSIWYG. It’s standards-compliant, includes an integrated CSS editor and is based on Mozilla’s Gecko layout engine. Nvu does both HTML and XHTML and comes in flavors for Windows, Linux and the Mac. Why, it even offers an inline spelling check with lines popping up to show typos. Hmm. If the ballyhoo is true, this just might be just the ticket when we do the long-overdue remake of the OpenReader site. Linspire is financing the Nvu project. Way to go, guys.
(Spotted via Bill Janssen’s post to the eBook Community list.)
June 30th, 2005 at 6:06 pm
It’s no surprise to me to find out that yet another microsoft product is lousy. The only thing this company has going for it is that it is a monopoly. We all know what happens whenever a company has a monopoly, don’t we?
June 30th, 2005 at 6:52 pm
Microsoft FrontPage is easy to use, but, yes, in terms of Web compliance, most of the versions could have been much better. Sucks. I do not know about the latest FP, though. I’ll welcome comments from others. Thanks. - DR
July 2nd, 2005 at 2:58 pm
Microsoft FrontPage is no easy program. But Bill Gates and associates might come up with something better. Money Talks. I use eversoft 1st page 2000 and it works Great!! Free Too.
July 9th, 2005 at 11:05 am
Microsoft front page is a “pain where an aspirin won’t cure”. I now use a freeware program and have no trouble. I find it amazing that a free program can be better than a microsoft one.
January 15th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Microsoft front page is difficult to use. It took me a lot of unnecessary time to “get over the humb” but this is a typical finding with almost any microsoft product.
November 7th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
It’s no surprise to me that another microsoft product sucks!