Hi again,
NVU and Kompozer are kind of abandoned and old... and they have some issues with Win Vista.
Do you know about another portable open source html editor or that can be portabilized?
What's your opinion about Bluefish, Amaya and Xinha?
Comments are appreciated...
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Kompozer is still in develepoment. There was also Blue Griffon in development but seems to be dead now = (
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What website is that? the official Kompozer website is http://kompozer.net/ and the version they show there is 0.7.10 which was done back in September 2007... the 0.8a4 that you show me is in development (Since 2007).
2007 looks quite abandoned for me...
I like Kompozer, it's my choice by default and it have all what I need, but it frequently crashes on Win Vista and I don't see a newer version in the near future.
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
If you look at the date of the most recent post that is on the main page of the site linked you will see it is for June 19 2009. Another way to see development is still active here.
PortableApps.com Advocate
my post I saw the date... but still 2 years in alpha? I'm not a big web designer but I think I (we) need something with more frequent updates...
Don't get me wrong, I love Kompozer, but the last stable version is before I started using Vista (by force) and now I'm on Win7.
And 4 versions old in Ubuntu (my other OS)...
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
Amaya has been mentioned before, and I've rejected it completely. Search for Amaya to find out more. Bluefish is closed source. Xinha runs inside a browser - for example, Firefox Portable.
I am a Christian and a developer and moderator here.
“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” – Proverbs 15:1
Wait a second, Bluefish isn't closed source, its under the GPL and that's why someone made Bluefish Portable (although it didn't work for most people).
But there’s no sense crying over every mistake,
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
Sorry, I was thinking of something else. And I can't even remember what it was...
Apologies for saying that it was closed source.
I am a Christian and a developer and moderator here.
“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” – Proverbs 15:1
hehehehe... precisely those three I asked opinions I found it googling for open source html editors then I knew Bluefish is open source...
The search you sent me have a post saying "And Kompozer is coming to its end too. They decided to develop a Blue Griffon." (George Yves)
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
Horses for courses.
It comes down to what features that you need in an html editor.
I have tried Amaya & have found it to be buggy and prone to crashing. The latest version of Komposer is a big improvement but it still has some issues. I have tried most of the freeware programs and have settled on two. Trellian Webpage and Fresh HTML. I have made them portable with JauntePE. Fresh HTML is updated regularly and I will probably end up using it exclusively because it has enough features for my requirements.
is there a reason Fresh HTML can't be made available as a PAF?
I used Quanta Plus for years on linux. Is there a reason Quanta isn't available as portable?
"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow
FreshHTML: closed source.
Quanta Plus: Linux only (KDE)
I am a Christian and a developer and moderator here.
“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” – Proverbs 15:1
If Fresh HTML offers good functionality couldn't we use a similar type of freeware downloader/installer as with Java Portable, CCleaner Portable and Google Earth Portable?
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I don't know... I'm just a Veterinarian who happen to have two websites, one for bears and one for Boy Scouts...
Probably I only need WYSIWYG, direct code edition and a preview browser.
Maybe a clue in what I need is my story with html editors: I started back in 1997 with Word (yes, MS Word), then notepad then frontpage express, then frontpage, then arachnophilia (I still use it for very specific stuff), then dreamweaver until I found PortableApps.com and discover NVU (and discover Open Source... and discover Linux), that was a long time ago now and currently I just use NVU and/or Kompozer (it depends in which one don't want to crash today) with little bits of Arachnophilia.
I'm currently reading about CSS (for Dummies) but I don't use other stuff like CMS basically because I don't know how.
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
I know it's in alpha, but KaZe has stated on his site that it's already more stable than 0.7.
It already has most, if not all of the features of 0.7.
If all you need is a stable editor that has WYSIWYG, code editing and preview, well it's got that and more.
As for the release schedule, it's not unusual in OS apps.
Sure, it's been 2 years since the last stable release, and I'm also feeling a little impatient.
I'm also impatient for Inkscape, for Audacity, for a real complete OS video editing software...
But Kompozer really isn't abandoned, and if you look at Kaze's blog, it seems that development is really picking up in the last few months.
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
I usually don't try alphas except for portables when I'm trying to help somebody here in PApps.com but Ok, I'm going to try Kompozer alpha...
But that "development is really picking up in the last few months" is the same I have been reading since two years ago...
Start downloading alpha... ; )
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
It really is pointless to complain about timelines for Open Source apps.
But if you want to help it go faster, then report any bugs from your alpha to KaZe; and if you know any other languages, you can help with localization!
FYI, if you look at his blog, you will see that the first appearance of 0.8 was only in February of this year:
http://kazhack.org/?post/2009/02/10/KompoZer-0.8a1
and from what I've seen of the most recent alpha (4) it has all the functionality of the stable 0.7 version, so I would call that pretty quick work.
Have fun with it!
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
Two years later... I just want to read new reasons why not to portabilize something new and active like bluefish...
BTW, this link points to nowhere (file doesn't exist)
Bluefish can be found here.
Thanks in advance.
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
Netbeans in the beta testing forum. While it was built primarily for Java, I use it regularly as a web development IDE.
I'll work on putting together a package. Shouldn't take long.
If you just need WYSIWYG HTML Editor, then SeaMonkey (http://www.seamonkey-project.org/) will do just that. It still is being developed actively, last stable version was 2.4.1 on 2011 Sep 29 and version 2.5 is on beta. And I just noticed that in-fact PortableApps already have SeaMonkey in its collection (https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/seamonkey_portable).