Ed Mullen wrote:
Miles Fidelman wrote on 1/19/2015 4:34 PM:
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I am willing to be shown to be wrong but on this I do believe that
Composer was abandoned long before SeaMonky became a "project" instead
of a "product" of Mozilla.
It has long laguished unserved and under-developed for, perhaps,
decades. For good reasons.
Actually, it's long taken on a life of it's own - see
http://www.kompozer.net/ (formerly nvu, and before that... Composer -
the one still in Netscape).
In fact, there is little to be served by even discussing it.
The notion of WYSIWYG Web design software is largely an abondoned issue.
I go back to the 1970s with this. When companies tried to develop
programs that created code from WYSIWYG UI input to create
"multimedia" programs.
Ummm... Adobe Dreamweaver anyone? There's still lot's of use for simple
web pages. The notion that one has to program to put words on a web
screen is just absurd for an awful lot of applications. Unfortunately,
what tends to happen is words -> office -> PDF, or worse, to HTML
generated by Word's horrendous exporter.
Some people actually still write real documents - not silly interactive,
ad-filled nonsense. For articles, papers, reports, spec sheets, tech.
manuals, lots of things, you don't want to have to "code" to put words
and diagrams on a screen.
It never worked well enough to be successful. And I doubt it ever will.
Countless companies I used to work with back that tried do do it back
then are all gone.
There is nothing better than humans knowing how to write correct code
and doing it.
Count the arrows in my back. I was a pioneer. I know this stuff.
Back to the late 70s with Sony, Laserdisc, "interactive video", all
that. I was there, I spoke on it, sold it, marketed it.
I wrote programs for it. Was National Marketing Manger for it.
There is not likely, in my lifetime, any program that can take crappy
user input via some friendly UI and turn into useful executable code,
HTML, script, whatever.
Just to use another example - every blog and wiki has a simple editor
built in. Work just fine.
The, perhaps, operative term there is "in my lifetime." I'm almost
65. I sincerely doubt this will happen before my demise.
I've been doing this since about 1982.
I'm not from Missouri but, okay, "Show me."
I won't say definitively that it won't happen. But you can roll me
over in my grave when it does.
Just for the record, Only 60, but I've been doing it as long as you
have. Publishing commercial gopher sites, well before this new fangled
HTML stuff came along.
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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