As far as I know, there isn't a HTML composer as good as Dreamweaver in unix world.
Nvu: The development work seems to be stopped after 1.0 was released and it has very limited features. Seamonkey: It's not an official product. Mozilla community never guarantee the quality of it. I.e. it may be unstable. So we can't deliver it as a product. In summary, we don't plan to deliver Nvu and Seamonkey on solaris. We are trying to get permission to contribute seamonkey nightly build to the Mozilla community, user can download and install the seamonkey nightly build on his/her solaris machine by that time. Brian Calum Benson wrote: > > On 19 Oct 2006, at 10:47, Tao Chen wrote: > >> On 10/19/06, Bob Doolittle <bobdrad at gmail.com> wrote: >> ... >>> >>> Do people feel that vi/xemacs (or Star/OpenOffice, >>> or bluefish) is sufficient, or should OpenSolaris provide >>> a good WYSIWYG HTML Composer as part of the >>> standard desktop? >> >> I don't know what professionals (webpage developers) use > > Dreamweaver and GoLive (both owned by Adobe since the Macromedia > takeover) are pretty much the only game(s) in town there, but of > course they're Mac and Windows only. > > As for Solaris options, I'd guess SeaMonkey's Composer is most likely > to be under active development for the time being, but it presumably > still lacks some of the features that nvu added to Mozilla Composer. > (I haven't seen it to check.) > >> However, I understand a HTML WYSIWYG composer is a must for broader >> audience, when Solaris is used as a desktop OS, in the future :) > > Well, I guess that's an interesting debate in itself. I suspect the > days of homebrew websites are already very much on the decline, with > the advent of blogs, wikis, myspace, flickr et al. So there are > probably fewer and fewer HTML-illiterati out there who need to put > together a web page in the old-fashioned way. (Even Apple's new iWeb > application doesn't actually let you edit *any* HTML-- it's 100% visual.) > > Cheeri, > Calum. > > --CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland > mailto:calum.benson at sun.com Java Desktop System Team > http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 > > Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
