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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: kfrontpage?
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2002-10-01 7:48:03
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On Monday 30 September 2002 10:53 am, Toivo Pedaste wrote:
|  >On Sunday September 29 2002 10:45, Tom Moorehouse wrote:
|  >> Will koffice be making a wysiwyg html editor like microsoft
|  >> Frontpage? I would think this is an essential component of a office
|  >> suite. It is also the only reason I have not made the complete switch
|  >> to linux.
|  >
|  >1) There is no such thing as "WYSIWYG" when dealing with HTML. Any HTML
|  >document can be rendered in many different ways.
|  >
|  >2) It is widely recognized that an HTML editor claiming to be "WYSIWYG"
|  >is a bad thing in e.g. comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html and the
|  >EFnet #html channel.
|
|  Yes, I know, this is the ideologically pure way of looking at things.
|
|  All I can say is that for a normal person the "WYSIWYG" way of editing
|  a HTML page is much easier, even if it doesn't produce exactly the

WYSIWYG HTML editor is called "KWord".
Current HTML export filter is not very advanced (it can't export Frames, or 
Tables, correctly), but I guess writing good HTML export filter is not so 
difficult as creating new HTML editor from scratch.


|  same result in every browser. If the page has a two dimensional
|  structure created with tables it's certainly beyond by ability
|  to grasp what the user will see from just looking at the source.

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