For getting things lined up, you could consider Microsoft FrontPage. Once
you get things formatted, open your HTML in Linux and add the other stuff
from there.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Mead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 4:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [OT] RAD cgi-form development
>
>
> From time to time I spend what seems like an inordinate
> amount of time
> creating multi-page forms. I create them by hand-coding HTML
> and Perl
> using CGI.pm. Because they are multi-form, I code the Perl
> to write the
> HTML "on the fly" as in Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm book. But I
> typically want
> to use tables to align things.
>
> In fact, I find that I spend a lot of time switching between
> my code and my
> browser getting everything aligned well, sync'ing names and
> other values,
> etc. And fixing typos and "think-o's" in my Perl. I think
> I would spend
> a lot less time (or satisfice less) if I had a WYSIWYG tool
> that allowed
> HTML elements to be dropped onto a canvas and then configured
> (named, given
> properties, etc.; like Window's Delphi and VB, if you are
> familiar). And
> then this ideal tool would write out proper Perl CGI.pm
> syntax. If it
> added javascript verification, that would be cool too.
>
> Anyone heard of such a beast? It seems like all the tools
> I'm familiar
> with (and I just put down a typically mediocre PC Magazine
> article about
> HTML generators) either focus exclusively on generating HTML
> or are not
> WYSIWYG. Obviously, I would VERY MUCH PREFER that I use it
> in a Linux/X11
> environment. I looked through the rpmfind site and couldn't
> see anything
> like this; in fact, I couldn't find any WYSIWYG HTML editor except
> Communicator and Amaya (which crashed within seconds of launching).
>
> -Alan
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> Alan Mead, Ph.D. / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Institute for Personality and Ability Testing
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