[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       quanta
Subject:    Re: [Quanta] Development issues
From:       John Culleton <John () wexfordpress ! com>
Date:       2015-03-08 13:02:23
Message-ID: 20150308090223.6f825028 () localb ! wexfordpress ! net
[Download RAW message or body]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 23:44:36 -0800
Eric Laffoon <eric@kdewebdev.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:30:11 John
> Culleton wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:59:04 -0800
> >
> > Eric Laffoon <eric@kdewebdev.org> wrote:
> > > 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
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Quanta mailing list
> > > Quanta@mail.kde.org
> > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________________
> > > Unlimited Disk, Data Transfer, PHP/MySQL
> > > Domain Hosting http://www.doteasy.com
> >
> > I thought it was a general purpose IDE.
> > I found choices for assembler, database etc.

What language is Quanta written in? Where is the
source code to in gzip or bzip form to
be found? You challenged me to make additions so
I need some guidance on these two issues.

Best wishes,


John Culleton Wexford Press
Free list of books for self-publishers:
http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html
Updated PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with
Scribus 1.4.5" coming soon at
http://www.booklocker.com/!
_______________________________________________
Quanta mailing list
Quanta@mail.kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]