wysiwyg html editors on linux

know of any good ones?

[benihana]

also, have any photoshop users had any experience of the GIMP?

cheers

[4eyes]

The only half-decent wysiwyg editors for Linux that I could find are Mozilla Composer and IBM Hompepage Builder.

Mozilla composer has a decent css add-on called 'cascades' which improves it somewhat, but its still not a patch on Dreamweaver for most things,

IBM Hompeage builder is a commercial program that uses a custom version of Wine to run version 4 of their Windows version. It crashes too much for my liking, and has a number of CSS display problems. There is a shareware version which carries on working with reduced functionality

Neither can replace Dreamweaver, so I still need a Windows installation to do my web design work.

You could always try to use Wine to get Dreamweaver working (I tried myself, but in true Homer Simpson fashion, I gave up when it didn't work first time)

Proprietary Windows Emulators will get you up and running with a genuine copy of Dreamweaver. but at the cost of some processing speed (not to mention some hard cash)

I'm not a graphics expert, but the Gimp is OK for most things once you get past the learning curve.

Pay no attention to the hoards of *nix geeks who say that you should hand code everything using Vi - they are wrong, we need Dreamweaver for *nix.;)

[benihana]

> Neither can replace Dreamweaver, so I still need a Windows installation to do my web design work.

I thought that might be the kind of response id get - im think im gonna have to keep w2k install ( and not worry about the gimp :))

thanks.

[Allen]

Reports on the WINE website say the Macromeida apps run well under WINE with only a few bugs.

Allen

[4serendipity]

Come on, use this opportunity to ditch using wysiwygs :)

I'm guessing that you're more of a visual designer. If this is the case it's probably best to stick to Windows, especially if you've gained considerable expertise with Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Messing with Wine and the Gimp's learning curve just isn't worth it.

[Marcia]

Not sure if it's WYSIWYG or a tag editor, which is a nice medium ground between WYSIWYG and a plain text editor, but Coffee Cup now has a Linux version that's free.

[benihana]

thanks for your input.

will give coffee cup a go

[caine]

coffee cup's not bad, but the best platform that i have used is what 4eyes suggested, which is the IBM wysiwyg, and until Macromedia port over, will continue to stay so.

I don't think it will be too long before macromedia start developing wysiwyg's and graphic packages for Linux boxes, though intially in a more simplified form, than is presently available in W2K.