Decent Free Wysiwyg Html Editor?

#1 I've been warming up to Nvu. It's based on the Gecko engine.

#2 Thanks i'll chck that out.

#3 Here's a radical Idea, lol

Have you considered using Outlook Express? You can create a message and put the window into "Source Edit" mode. Then you can edit your file like Word, view your output like a browser, and edit your source all with a click of a tab. It's 3 editors in one.

#4 Silly clown.

Actually I don't have AE installed and I don't want to install it. It'll just mess things up. I use Outlook but it just uses Word for its emails so that doesn't get me anywhere.

Actually so far Nvu is real sweet and doing exactly what I need.

#5 Do people not like Netscape anymore? Netscape Composer is still free.

#6 Netscape Composer also generates horrible code. :)

#7 Is the Mozilla Composer any different? I've never used either.

#8 I don't think it's free but I use coffeecup html editor. There may be a free version out there though

#9 Netscape is now AOL (which is funny, because arent they both ISPs too?)

I'd stick with their open-source counterparts

#10 Good ole notepad

#11 FYI. NVU is based on the Mozilla platform. Hence it's kind of Composer++

#12 I like notepad best as well, only way to make sure you don't get a bunch of junk code in your HTML, frontpage anyone?

#13 Notepad? Other text editors have context-sensitive highlighting. For example, I use gvim for my HTML editing. Having to enter the tags manually doesn't bother me at all, but I used to use troff as a word processor, so I'm immune to the pain.

As far as WYSIWIG HTML editors go, we were required to use FrontPage at the megacorp where I used to work. I longed for any alternative, which is why I asked earlier in this thread about Ntscp Composer. (I used to edit the FrontPage-created docs with gvim to clean up a lot of the junk.)

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Netscape is now AOL (which is funny, because arent they both ISPs too?)

True, but I was thinking of the SW, not the biz.

#14 Considering the point was I wanted a WYSIWYG Editor, notepad wouldn't quite cut it ya think? :p

Yes I can write HTML code with the best of them but when you're trying to type up a document like you would do in Word, it really slows you down to have to either a) Put in HTML code as you go or b) Go back and edit in HTML code.

Much faster, and easier from a though-flow standpoint to be able to just type.

If I was doing a website then i'd be in ultraedit.

#15 @John try Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/
The OOWriter program allows you to type just like a word document AND add all the HTML goodies, I use it for quickly prototyping pages, and the best part is that it doesn't leave a bunch of crappy non-compliant HTML laying around like FrontPage. Everything I've ever made in there is completely W3C compliant.

#16 I use Nvu as well and I like it because it allows me to switch between visual editing such as using Word, etc. and the switch over to straight .html code at the click of a tab.

#17 You can use HTML Tidy or other freely available to tools to clean up the code that Word makes. Microsoft even offers their own filter : www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=209ADBEE-3FBD-482C-83B0-96FB79...

#18 WYSIWYG editors are the the spawn of the devil

#19 @Anthony: I used to think the same thing, having tried, and even taught courses on using Dreamweaver and FrontPage (spawn of the devil), doing all my (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript code by hand in TextPad. Then I had to start doing ColdFusion and Flex coding too for multiple sites of hundreds of pages. A text editor just didn't cut the mustard anymore.

I use FlexBuilder now, which is Dreamweaver with Flex capability also. I don't use the Design view (WYSIWYG) hardly at all, but the organization features and templates of Dreamweaver have been a life saver.

Also, the average user shouldn't have to learn HTML and CSS just to create a simple page.

WYSIWYGs have their purpose, but it is always a good idea to learn HTML to get greater control of your sites.

#20 I use HTML-Kit (www.chami.com) for winxp and linux (ubuntu + wine), some nice plugins for it, and only editor have ever found that can allow you to 'preview' php scripts (with a little work configuring a localhost server).