Re: WSIWYG Editor Recommendation 4 Client Updates

by "Lois Wakeman" <lois(at)lois.co.uk>

Date:	Fri, 24 May 2002 12:09:48 +0100
To:	<hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>, <mgann(at)second-street.com>
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Melanie.

I have had some success in similar scenarios with AOLPress, which is free
but ageing. It is a pretty basic WYSIWYG editor that doesn't support styles,
but should be enough for editing text and links etc, as long as you can
explain to your clients that the page will look OK on the web. For the MAC,
PageSpinner has been very good for a newbie who I support.

http://members.aol.com/rjdriver/aolpress.htm

http://www.optima-system.com/pagespinner/

IMO: FP's biggest downside is that if you use just the editor, it's quite
likely to rewrite all your URLs as file paths. And HMPro, a good tool for
coders, is very unforgiving of any parsing errors - so, if for example you
include some of your page using scripts or SSIs, it can fail to validate and
load the page. And DW is way too expensive and powerful to let loose on the
unsuspecting!

Better to give them something simple so they aren't tempted to add any
flashy gizmos ;-)

Lois Wakeman

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