The message 20050422115245.GB5805@pitr from Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk contains these words:
Anthony Anson tony.anson@zetnet.co.uk wrote:
I'm used to using Arachnophilia for writing pages (though most of what goes on the page is hand-crafted, not point-and-click.).
What editor would people recommend for running under Debian? (I dislike Mozilla's offering.)
Well, obviously, I would suggest vim... but that's just a text editor ;)
Well, the text editor might be pressed into service, but an HTML editor does nice things like fill your page with a table and provides padded cells therein for when you're a bit overwrought innit.
*AND* it does it without making silly typos. (I'm *STILL* wondering sometimes why <centre></centre> doesn't do anything...)
The nice thing about HTMLED, Arach, Pagemill etc is that you can use it like a text editor when you want, and when no-one's looking, it'll speed things up for you.
To be quite honest, I wouldn't know how to drive a WYSIWYG editor. I began hand-crafting HTML when Mosaic was king, and have made one page (as an experiment, hoest, guv!) in Word 2000 and deleted it, screaming.
Requirements:
*NOT* a (so-called) WYSIWYG thing. CSS-capable Easily understood by a beer of very little brian.
^^^^ hmmmmm.... beeeeeeeeeeeeeer :)
Yers. I've been thirsty all day...
Right, from that, you might have luck with the ever evil nvu (which is WYSIWYG, and uses the Gecko rendering engine, certainly worth a look (although, it currently segfaults on here), or at Quanta Plus, or even Bluefish. Those are the 3 that spring to my mind, anyways. Of those 3, bluefish is probably the easiest to get to grips with if you're used to tag based markup.
Hmm. Not quite what I'm after.
On coverdiscs I have:
Dammit! Linux Magazine CDs tell you what's on them, but not what the programs do - and, I haven't got the mags to hand, and the Linux Format DVDs aren't much better in that respect.
So, the short answer is, I don't know. I'll have to bring some to the Reindeer.
Does anyone know of a file which lists all the available HTML tags, and where it can be got?
Depends on the HTML version, but all of the specifications are available from the w3c site, take a look around http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
Ta. I'll have another look. I spent rather too much of my (dial-up) time on W3C downloading a lot of Mañuels.
And:
could someone please explain (in worms of one syllabub) what
<!--SELECTION--><!--/SELECTION--> does?
Right, generally <!-- donates the start of a comment and --> the end of it. So, at a guess, that just tells pagemill that this is the beginning and end of a SELECTION, what ever one of those may be :)
Does it tell a browser anything, though? I've got a print-out of a W3C thing on XHTML Modules and Markup Languages, but it assumes too much about how much I know.
And it's wrong.