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Ben Goodger wrote: | | There is that thingy from the W3C.. Amaya, it's called. It edits valid | XHTML with a fully WYSIWYG interface.
Amaya is a browser/editor, but it is more a research tool than a useful too I think, it doesn't even pass the Acid Test for CSS 1.0 compliance as a browser.
It does have interesting features as regards annotations, and other funky web technology, anyone improving web technology should play with it, but I'd need some convincing to use it to make a good page editor.
I'm not entirely convinced WYSIWYG is even desirable with web technology (Amaya doesn't really try, it focuses on structure mostly), and I'm pretty convinced that almost everything that tries this approach fails, although Dreamweaver is better than most. Similarly NVU is interesting, but unless they have made a lot of progress I wouldn't want to live with it as a professional web editting environment.
The trend seems to be for content management style systems, or CSS plus simplified markup for content, although there is a dirth of good free software CSS Editors for GNU/Linux, which is odd (I think) because most of it should write itself from the formal CSS specification if you used the right tools.
I think the problem is WYSIWYG assumes you are using a type setting tools, and inspite of the recent additions to the CSS standards for fancy font/typeface features, the clients for website only sometimes render details as intended.
I am the web designers nightmare, I surf with big fonts to avoid eye strain, and when I'm not using Firefox, or Konqueror, I'm using Lynx. You'd be amazed how many sites just crumble into unreadable with one application of "ctrl" + "+".
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