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WYSIWYG HTML editors are dead, an incredible sad fact. Dreamweaver never advanced after Adobe bought Macromedia (beside UI color changes and minor upgrades), M
by frik 12y ago
WYSIWYG HTML editors are dead, an incredible sad fact.
Dreamweaver never advanced after Adobe bought Macromedia (beside UI color changes and minor upgrades), Microsoft killed FrontPage (trident engine) and the successors Web Expression 4, Adobe killed GoLive, Netscape/Mozilla killed Composer incl. their forks Nvu and KompoZer and BlueGriffon. Only SeaMonkey (the former Mozilla/Netscape Suite) still ships with the outdated editor. Microsoft Word 2010 still ships with Frontend 2003 HTML editor code for its "Web" view that produces broken HTML4 output. Outlook 2010+ now also use Word as HTML editor/viewer (based on Frontpage code). So nowadays, there are only two HTML editors with design view left SeaMonkey and Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver comes with an outdated and discontinued Opera 8 based pre HTML5 design-view (Opera browser engine has been discontinued and is nowadays just a Chrome based browser) and SeaMonkey's Composer and their forks Nvu/KompoZer/BlueGriffon haven't been updated for years and Mozilla Thunderbird basically dead too (its HTML email editor uses the same component).
ContentEditable HTML5 API (WYSIWYG editor for HTML5) is broken in all browsers too and no one fixes the bugs!! - see the bugs listed there: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/execCommand.html http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/execCommand.html , http://caniuse.com/#feat=contenteditable http://caniuse.com/#feat=contenteditable , https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/contentEditable https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement...
As ContentEditable is used in many online email services as HTML email editor like GMail (and used GoogleDocs v1) and online rich text editors there is a tiny little hope at least some browser developers fix ContentEditable bugs.
Apple has an WYSIWYG editor on top of Webkit, it is used in their word processor "Pages". The open source community needs an WYSIWYG editor based on webkit/chromium or at least as bug-fixed ContentEditable.
- wx196 12y agoDreamweaver CC uses WebKit-based rendering engine: http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2013/08/dwcc.html http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2013/08/dwcc.html