HTML Help (wasRe: New GZG Photo Gallery)

8 posts ยท Jul 9 2002 to Jul 11 2002

From: Brian Burger <yh728@v...>

Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 20:47:33 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: HTML Help (wasRe: New GZG Photo Gallery)

> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Allan Goodall wrote:

> If you do decide to code the HTML yourself, I suggest you pick up

http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.html

I'll second Allan's recommendation. My site is built & maintained w/
Arachophilia, and it's the best HTML editor out there.

Even better, the latest version (5.0) is entirely Java-based, so it'll
run on *any* system and the customisability has gone thru the roof. It's a
great program. The Windows-only 4.0 is a bit less intimidating, though.

Think of it as a spell-checker for your HTML, with lots of extras.

From: Allan Goodall <agoodall@a...>

Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:33:15 -0500

Subject: Re: HTML Help (wasRe: New GZG Photo Gallery)

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 20:47:33 -0700 (PDT), Brian Burger
<yh728@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:

> Even better, the latest version (5.0) is entirely Java-based, so it'll

I loaded version 5, the Java version, earlier this afternoon. I just
uninstalled it and reinstalled 4. It looks like I'd have to do more work than
I really need to get it looking like the old version. I don't like the way it
looks, and it's much slower than the previous version. It's also much bigger
in hard drive space, since you need the Java 2 runtime to make it work.

I can sympathize with his anti-Microsoft stance, but going with a
look-and-feel different from other Microsoft products has negative
aspects. I
just did _not_ like 5 and I'm a huge fan of 4. Maybe there's something
special about 5 I'm missing, but I didn't like it one bit and didn't see much
added functionality.

From: Flak Magnet <flakmagnet@t...>

Date: 10 Jul 2002 16:47:27 -0400

Subject: Re: HTML Help (wasRe: New GZG Photo Gallery)

Wouldn't an all-java app be huge and slow anyway?

I use Bluefish for all my web design stuff... but then. I also do so little
design that it's an overstatement to call it "trivial".

Anyway, Bluefish is here:

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/

Free, open-source, runs on Linux.  It doesn't run on Windows... but
then, does that really matter? Windows users can just use MS Office and "Save
as: HTML". *snicker*

--Flak

> On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 16:33, Allan Goodall wrote:

From: Roger Burton West <roger@f...>

Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:56:25 +0100

Subject: Re: HTML Help (wasRe: New GZG Photo Gallery)

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:47:27PM -0400, Flak Magnet wrote:

Well, FTJava is fairly huge, but not all that slow.

(Trying hard to get back on topic.)

> I use Bluefish for all my web design stuff... but then. I also do so

<curmudgeon> I use vi. For email too. By choice.
</curmudgeon>

From: Roger Books <books@m...>

Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:33:15 -0400 (EDT)

Subject: Re: HTML Help (wasRe: New GZG Photo Gallery)

> On 10-Jul-02 at 16:56, Roger Burton West (roger@firedrake.org) wrote:

> <curmudgeon>

You are ill, everyone knows the One True OS is Emacs. <grin>

From: Nick and Laurel Caldwell <clcaldwell@k...>

Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:45:18 -0400

Subject: Re: HTML Help (wasRe: New GZG Photo Gallery)

vi vi vi -- The editor of the beast

Sorry, sorry. Narn bat squad defenses up, now!

Nicholas Caldwell clcaldwell@kreative.net

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From: Flak Magnet <flakmagnet@t...>

Date: 11 Jul 2002 09:32:25 -0400

Subject: Re: HTML Help (wasRe: New GZG Photo Gallery)

Emacs an OS?  Bah!  It's a text-based UI* at best!

A powerful, flexible, robust and full-featured UI, but still, JUST a UI.

* - User Interface

> On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 17:33, Roger Books wrote:

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:23:30 -0400

Subject: Re: HTML Help (wasRe: New GZG Photo Gallery)

No religious arguments onlist, please <grin>