On Tuesday 09 June 2009 16:50:33 Luke771 wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > On Saturday 06 June 2009 23:12:53 Luke771 wrote: > > > >> Should I file bugs for this kind of stuff? I heard that you were trying > >> to make order in the bug tracker and I don't want to add more mess until > >> the existing mess is sorted out, so I'm posting this kind of stuff here. > >> I would file bugs for trivial stuff such as alternate wordings > >> suggestions, if you guys tell me that it's OK to do so. > >> In the meantime, here's another string that IMHO should be changed: > >> > >> InsertFreesiteToadlet.content3=Once you have downloaded jSite, and > >> constructed your website using an HTML editor such as KompoZer (free) or > >> Dreamweaver (commercial), work through one of the following tutorials > >> which are hosted on Freenet: > >> > >> Never underestimate stupidity! > >> That string make it sound as if users *must* use either Kompozer or > >> Dreamweaver, and a website built, say, manually editing the HTML can't > >> be published on Freenet. > >> > >> (besides, the old version of my FAFS freesite (before the layout switch) > >> were built with Kompozer and when I eventually decided to switch to > >> manual editing I found that the Kompozer-generate HTML was a horrible mess) > >> > >> I suggest to make it "build a site in HTML" without suggesting any app, > >> e.g. > >> > >> InsertFreesiteToadlet.content3=Once you have downloaded jSite and built > >> your website in HTML (CSS is also allowed), follow the instructions from > >> one of the following freesites: > >> > > > > Not convinced, IMHO any user able to write a website in HTML will > > understand this, no? > > > > Sure. And those who might misundertand it as 'must use > kompozer/dreamweaver' can't type html manually anyway. > However, my point is more like 'don't suggest any specific WYSIWYG > editor, just let users find their own. > By the way, do the Freenet Project get paid for promoting Kompozer and > Dreamwaver? > > I know I'm thinking like an 'evil capitalist', but we live in an evil > capitalist world after all, so here's my point: why should we provide > advertising for Kompozer and Dreamweaver? E-mail them and tell them that > we 'could' do that, if we had a good reason to (and don't accept "an > accident could happen..." as an answer) > j/k ;-) > > In the meantime, it would be a better idea (IMHO) to suggest that they > google 'WYSIWYG HTML editor'. > With that in mind, yet another alternative for the string in question > could be: > > InsertFreesiteToadlet.content3=Build a website using HTML and CSS or use > WYSIWYG editors (What You See Is What You Get) that provide user-friendly > interfaces. A web search for WYSIWYG could be a good starting point. Once > built your site, follow the instructions from one of the following freesites: > > > Note: I did google WYSIWYG and I got lots of good hits, including (of > course) Wikipedia page, other pages with definitions and explanations, > some official sites of particular WYSIWYG editors, and (this is the good > one) some pages with editors reviews , including a 'Best 25 WYSIWYG'
"WYSIWYG editor" != "WYSIWYG HTML editor". My objective is simply to make life easy for the user. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090610/fd4e974e/attachment.pgp>
