The message 3FCE74DB.5060106@franci5.fsnet.co.uk from Ben Francis ben@franci5.fsnet.co.uk contains these words:
I'm sure it's possible for the Open Source community to write a WYSIWYG editor for GNU/Linux that generates clean, W3C compliant code with a intuitive user interface. But where's the incentive to write one?
Quite. I haven't closed the traitorous tag yet - while there are good free HTML editors in Windows and Linux there's no incentive to make an (alleged) WYSIWYG program.
Joe Public is quite capable of using an ordinary HTML editor, or even copying the codes from a small document on paper (yes, RL rears its ugly head) into an ASCII program such as Notepad and just renaming it with a HTML or HTM extension.
It really is that easy, and anyone who can navigate round a computer can pick it up in minutes. I know I was delighted to find absolutely no problems with what I had expected to be a Dark Art, and still baffled by some of the goings-on in Word. (I *STILL* prefer Locoscript!)
I still haven't closed that tag, nor have I closed 'body' or HTML as I have an idea that this subject has legs.