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Proposed by
Steven Lowry
on 31/05/1997.
StatusFree for development.

Short description
HTML editing in wysiwyg format
Proposed name
html edit capability
Full description
If you work with a PC you can create your web pages in a 'what you see is what you get' format AKA check out wordperfect 7 or MS Word. These programs although being cheesy graphics editors for web pages do provide power to create nice web page to people who otherwise would pass do to having to learn HTML coding. Final writer is getting there but this would help the overall amiga community acceptance into the bigger market.

Comments
MetalWeb(1.0a, 1.1) looks promising but crashes after about 5-10 minutes of use on my system. If they can fix the bugs and add full table support I would register.

26/03/1998
Art Skiles

A "WYSIWIG" HTML editor is a contradiction in terms. HTML is a MARKUP language, and NOT a LAYOUT language! People who use such editors are kidding themselves. There is absolutely NO guarantee that what their "editor" displays is going to resemble what any arbitrary browser displays.

29/08/1997
Philip C. Tsao

Get MetalWEB demo from Aminet...It's a WYSIWYG HTML editor for Amiga...Next version will support frames in a couple of weeks

20/07/1997
Sinan Gurkan

No, if you are referring to Arachne, that company only claimed that they will do it, but that's just vaporware. They just did a map editor, which almost useless compared with a real visual HTML editor which is in high demand.

12/07/1997
Manuel Lemos

I've been looking over Amiga Web Directory and there's a company already having such a product. So I will not pursue development over this project, this seem to be already done by other programmer and I'll put my time on other already started Moebius Project. Look real soon for my cardserial.device

09/07/1997
Yannick Koehler

Since Final Writer 5, you can export a document in HTML. The export driver supports most HTML styles and embeds pictures that you can import into FinalWriter via datatypes. For the HTML features that the driver does not support, you can embed HTML code by hand that the driver will export verbatim. I used FinalWriter to write my page and with the set of HTML styles predefined in FinalWriter HTML template document it was a piece of cake to convert documents that I had written before to HTML in almost no time. Feel free to take a look at my page that was done only with FinalWriter and PPaint 7 for the graphics, at: http://sweet.ua.pt/~mlemos

13/06/1997
Manuel Lemos

Well, an HTML WYSIWYG editor is not that difficult to write. The only difficult part would be the tables/frames support IMHO. I wish I had the time to work on that. Still, I am sure such an editor will come soon to the Amiga.

07/06/1997
Mark Papadakis

There is already an HTML wysiwyg editor on Aminet. Actually it is a text editor that has an open architecture and can take "plugin" editors in it. One of them is an HTML fully wysiwyg editor. It's called AMIS and it's in text/edit on Aminet. The HTML editor is on another archive (read the .readme). It's still in beta stage but it's impressive to use.

06/06/1997
Giorgos Stagakis

As you may have seen, I'm taking this idea to a completion stage for the Amiga. We already have a good base of HTML edition and we can have prototypes ready as early as two weeks. What I would like to see and receive are screenshot or graphics of ideas on how it should look (interface)... I've got good ideas but I would like to receive differents one. Send to: koehler@moebius.qc.ca

04/06/1997 20:58
Yannick Koehler