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List:       quanta
Subject:    Re: [Quanta] Development issues
From:       Eric Laffoon <eric () kdewebdev ! org>
Date:       2015-01-20 22:59:04
Message-ID: 201501201459.04317.eric () kdewebdev ! org
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On Tuesday 20 January 2015 13:17:59 John Culleton wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 20:59:21 -0800
>
> Eric Laffoon <eric@kdewebdev.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
[...]
> > Also I want to give a word of thanks for all
> > the community support I've gotten over the
> > years with this project. It has been a
> > wonderful life experience, and it's one I'm not
> > ready to put to bed yet.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >\
>
> I gave up on Quanta years ago. The last useful
> version for me came with KDE 3.5 For a while I
> maintained an old version of Slackware just to
> get at Quanta Plus as it existed in its glory
> days. But html kept changing and the old
> Quanta didn't keep up.

Well the truth of the matter is Quanta made it possible to create new a DTEP 
to define HTML 5 but even though it is open source nobody stepped up to make 
it. I plan on doing it soon. That at least helps. Quanta was designed to be 
so extensible it would not need to be updated, and this just proves the myth 
of open source... somebody still has to do the work. HTML 5 support will be 
available by hitting the menu and downloading it soon.
>
> There are reasons I guess to have a multi-language
> IDE like the current Quanta. But I much prefer an
> editor dedicated to web pages alone and with two
> windows: one for source and one for the web
> view of that source. 
Quanta is solely for web pages, but many of us use server side scripting. My 
ambition was to incorporate the ability to preview, and to a degree edit 
generated pages. In any case a newer version of Quanta would have webkit and 
would be able to take advantage of editor support for ECMA script. That would 
mean a preview with the basis of the most popular modern browsers. Still if 
you use server side scripting your preview requires a web server. Frankly I 
have one installed and I have Chrome so I'm not missing this that much. How 
hard is it to open a browser?

> The unix model has always 
> been single purpose programs and not the boy scout
> knife approach.

How is web page development not single focus? In any case our idea was always 
to support whatever form of web development a developer was working on. An 
updated version of Quanta would do this far better than before.
>
> My next web page will be written in svg using
> Inkscape. My current pages are maintained using
> Gvim.

Thanks for sharing. On my web site I have to do business, manage data and 
handle various media for various platforms. I would not consider an SVG page 
nor would I want to use a text editor which which is generally acknowledged 
to be the Swiss army knife of editors and yet lacks key features to support 
web development. 

Anyway after your ideas I look forward to receiving your patches and plugins.

Eric
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