Re: HTML Editors (WAS: Re: Opera 6 beta available)

2001-12-11 Thread Mike Andrew
Matthew Carpenter wrote: % Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for a good WYSIWYG HTML Editor? There's a product called Quanta. Don't know anything about it, though. Kurt I'm pleased with it. Doug Hunley put me on to Quanta+ originally, it now ships as standard with RH7.2

Re: HTML Editors (WAS: Re: Opera 6 beta available)

2001-12-11 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Monday 10 December 2001 17:07, you wrote: Matthew Carpenter wrote: % Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for a good WYSIWYG HTML Editor? Have you eliminated screem? Try that -- Regards, Declan Moriarty Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost

Re: OTRe: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Susan Macchia wrote: % Just to clarify a point, any program can create new windows *without* spawning % a new process. Spawning a process or thread is an implementation detail of an % application that is independent of the user interface. Yup. This point pokes at the event model vs. the thread

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-29 Thread Bruce Marshall
I downloaded Opera 6 a couple of days ago and found it to be more stable than 5.0.1 but. I had downloaded (for the first time I think) the dynamically linked QT version.It was slug-slow at screen refreshes to the point of being almost unusable. I just downloaded the statically

Re: HTML Editors (WAS: Re: Opera 6 beta available)

2001-11-28 Thread Keith Antoine
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 16:12, Kurt Wall enunciated: Matthew Carpenter wrote: % Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for a good WYSIWYG HTML Editor? [long unwrapped line snipped] There's a product called Quanta. Don't know anything about it, though. Kurt Bluefish

Re: HTML Editors (WAS: Re: Opera 6 beta available)

2001-11-28 Thread Bill Day
Quanta is pretty kewl... was turned on by it in when I was still running kde1 stcok for COL... now with kde2.1.1(yeah I know...) its even beter. very nice easy to use interface once you learn where everything is at... Have yet to try bluefish.. so can't give no opinions of it.. On Wednesday

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Ian Marchak
Quoting Susan Macchia [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just tried it and find it has much improved performance over 5.0. Don't care so much about it being larger in size since I have 384mb. If you want a fast reliable browser, Opera is it (once you get past the MDI interface and tailor it to your

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 9:46 am, John Hiemenz wrote: Multi-Document Interface. When a program opens new windows as child windows of the parent, but keeps them all contained within the parent window. (as opposed to spawning a new process with a new window) There is a setting which

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Susan Macchia
MDI stands for Multiple Document Interface. It is a GUI policy that is used by an application where it opens up windows within its own larger window. The first time I saw it was on Windoze. Opera uses it, StarOffice uses it. IMHO it can be a useful UI technique if used judiciously, but for

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Ian Marchak
Quoting Susan Macchia [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MDI stands for Multiple Document Interface. It is a GUI policy that is used by an application where it opens up windows within its own larger window. The first time I saw it was on Windoze. Opera uses it, StarOffice uses it. Doh. Thanks. I've

OTRe: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Susan Macchia
Just to clarify a point, any program can create new windows *without* spawning a new process. Spawning a process or thread is an implementation detail of an application that is independent of the user interface. John Hiemenz wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2001 07:47 am, you stated : Quoting

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 01:38:28 + dallam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have the cpu to run Mozilla or the patience to use Netscape, so I like using opera. I don't understand the cpu bit. I've only got 300MZ to play with. Mozilla is oh-so-slow to startup, but OK after that. Now I'm

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread dallam
Hi Collins, This old machine is a 100mhz, 1.2 hdd with 32mb's of ram. I don't have the space for 30MB's of browser when 4MB's does all I need. IIRC Mozilla is pretty large also and requires about 233mhz cpu doesn't it? Due to cpu speed and disk space I tend to run only small, fast applications on

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:13:06 + dallam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Collins, This old machine is a 100mhz, 1.2 hdd with 32mb's of ram. I don't have the space for 30MB's of browser when 4MB's does all I need. IIRC Mozilla is pretty large also and requires about 233mhz cpu doesn't it? Due

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, Collins Richey chose to write: I liked in Opera. I don't really understand why Galeon (overlay on top of the Mozilla Gecko engine) is so snappy whereas Mozilla is darn slow. A question that's been debated on the Mozilla newsgroups for what seems like ages. AFAIK, Galeon doesn't

Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-27 Thread Chris Kassopulo
http://www.opera.com/linux/ -- Chris Kassopulo _/\_ Linux User #199893 _/\_ Vector Linux ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-27 Thread Ken Moffat
Interesting, they have .deb, .rpm, and tar.gz. Waiting for the first review.. ;-) On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:00:51 + Chris Kassopulo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.opera.com/linux/ -- Chris Kassopulo _/\_ Linux User #199893 _/\_ Vector Linux

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-27 Thread dallam
Hi ken, I put it on early this morning. It seems to have grown about a MB or so in size, but it has some neat built in features like translations, dictionary and encyclopedia. It also has an irritating popup disclainer when it first runs. All in all it is kind of nice so far. I don't have the cpu

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-27 Thread Joel Hammer
Does it do plugins? Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-27 Thread Ken Moffat
I've been using Mozilla, and like it. I also use Opera 5, and am happy with it as is. I wonder if I should chance the upgrade, in light of the tech preview status of the current 6.0 release. On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 01:38:28 + dallam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ken, I put it on early this

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-27 Thread dallam
Hi Joel, Yes, it does. check out the opera website for all the features. Thus spake Joel Hammer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Does it do plugins? Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-27 Thread dallam
Hi Ken, Well, the only thing that I can say that I don't like about it is the popup you get when you start it. Something about version not to be distributed and so on. As to whether you should change or not, that's a personal decision :) Can you save the old version and come back to it if you

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 02:39:25 + dallam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you save the old version and come back to it if you don't like the new one? Dallam I think I can save it. Does the new one seem stable? -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-27 Thread dallam
Ken, Yes, it seems well tested and stable. No crashes, freezes or anything like that. I have had in about 18 hours now without a hitch but YMMV as you know :) Thus spake Ken Moffat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I think I can save it. Does the new one seem stable? -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-27 Thread Ken Moffat
oK, thanks for the feedback. Guess I'll give it a go. (You sure have a lot of blank space at the bottom of your messages.) On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 03:00:43 + dallam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken, Yes, it seems well tested and stable. No crashes, freezes or anything like that. I have had in

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-27 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for a good WYSIWYG HTML Editor? Not just what NetScape and Mozilla have, I am looking for something I can use to do things like FORMS, and it'd be a big plus to have something like DreamWeaver's capability of using Layers to place content,

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:47:21 -0500 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for a good WYSIWYG HTML Editor? Not wysiwyg, but Bluefish is a good html editor. -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-27 Thread Ken Moffat
Got it, installed on Libranet (deb). Seems excellent. Thanks again. On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 03:00:43 + dallam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken, Yes, it seems well tested and stable. No crashes, freezes or anything like that. I have had in about 18 hours now without a hitch but YMMV as you know

HTML Editors (WAS: Re: Opera 6 beta available)

2001-11-27 Thread Kurt Wall
Matthew Carpenter wrote: % Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for a good WYSIWYG HTML Editor? [long unwrapped line snipped] There's a product called Quanta. Don't know anything about it, though. Kurt -- History is curious stuff You'd think by now we had enough Yet

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-27 Thread Rick Forrister
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:47:21 -0500 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for a good WYSIWYG HTML Editor? Not just what NetScape and Mozilla have, I am looking for something I can use to do things like FORMS, and it'd be a big plus to