Slashdot Mirror

The BlueGriffon author wrote a Firefox extension that implemented IE's WebSlices called WebChunks for Firefox 3.5, and as you can tell from how popular it was, he never updated it.

I agree with but since no one seemed to have any answers for this person... I have not used these but they seem to be options a Dreamweaver replacement. NVU http://net2.com/nvu/ Quanta Plus http://freecode.com/projects/quantaplus Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ Blue Griffon http://bluegriffon.org/ Hope this helps the original poster. Oh and if you just want free as in beer. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express I have used any of them but out of this is you will probably find something that will fill the bill.

I hadn't heard of Blue Griffon, so I looked it up and found that it is made by the same guy who made Nvu all those years ago. Nvu hasn't been updated for over 6 years, so as a result the community forked it and it became KompoZer. Now, though, KompoZer hasn't been updated in almost 2 years. The other options don't appear to be faring much better on the release front. It looks like Blue Griffon might be the way to go at the moment.

LWATCDR posted:

I agree with but since no one seemed to have any answers for this person... I have not used these but they seem to be options a Dreamweaver replacement. NVU http://net2.com/nvu/ Quanta Plus http://freecode.com/projects/quantaplus Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ Blue Griffon http://bluegriffon.org/ Hope this helps the original poster. Oh and if you just want free as in beer. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express I have used any of them but out of this is you will probably find something that will fill the bill.

Good of you to actually address the OP's question. However:

NVU - only useful for sites hosted by the program's vendor.

Quanta Plus - only runs on Linux (DW is a Mac/Windows application).

Amaya - hasn't been updated since 2009, and it's utterly broken in many respects (can't cut-and-paste tables, for instance).

Blue Griffon - shows promise. I haven't used it, so I don't know how well it works, but at least it's currently under development. Otoh, it's still in beta, it's "free to download" - which means they plan to charge some unknown amount for the commercial release version - and it has a bunch of add-ons that are NOT free, and do not appear to be OS.

Visual Web Studio Express - is a Windows application. OP may well be working in a Mac environment. Also, resulting HTML is likely bloatacious and nearly impossible to hand-tune.

I agree with but since no one seemed to have any answers for this person...
I have not used these but they seem to be options a Dreamweaver replacement.
NVU http://net2.com/nvu/
Quanta Plus http://freecode.com/projects/quantaplus
Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Blue Griffon http://bluegriffon.org/
Hope this helps the original poster.
Oh and if you just want free as in beer.
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express
I have used any of them but out of this is you will probably find something that will fill the bill.

BlueGriffon is another editor that does HTML5, CSS3, SVG, and MathML. It is also extendable. Not exactly what you are looking for but what you want may not exist. Anyway you might want to check out BlueGriffon too.

Take a look at BlueGriffon. It's powered by Gecko (the Firefox engine) and has support for new(er) HTML5 form tags, etc. It's a relatively young application, but it's coming along nicely.

BlueGriffon, developed by the guy who gave us Nvu is well worth a look. It's a free open source WYSIWYG HTML editor.

The author from Nvu has now published a new web editor: BlueGriffon, still open source. It's even available for OS/2!

The author from Nvu has now published a new web editor: BlueGriffon, still open source. It's even available for OS/2!

BlueGriffon is maintained by the same person that wrote NVU, and since the HTML can be worked with directly which updates the WYSIWYG view, I doubt you even used it yet to earn any right to dismiss it.

I just started using BlueGriffon, a free and open source WYSIWYG web editor that is available for Linux, Windows, and MacOSX.

It's lineage is as follows:

Netscape Composer -> NVU -> Kompozer -> Blue Griffon

It's been around in one form or another since 1997, so I'm thinking it won't go anywhere.

Seriously, isn't there anything (cheap/free) out there that will just let somebody edit a web site in WYSIWYG mode?

Nvu (which is based on Netscape Composer, but hasn't been updated for years), KompoZer (which is based on Nvu, but hasn't been updated in over a year) and BlueGriffon (where do they get these names) which seems to be under active development.

The last time I used KompoZer it worked, but crashed every once in a while and wasn't HTML 4 compliant. Maybe BlueGriffon is better.

BlueGriffon is worth a try: http://www.bluegriffon.org/

NVU and Kompozer are being replaced to some degree by BlueGriffon, which is based on the same code.

WYSIWYG html editors will always be used by the large majority of cheap developers, so whatever they spit out is the lowest common denominator.

I believe Blue Griffon will interest you.