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Subject:Re: HTML word processor? From:"David M. Brown" <dmbrown -at- BROWN-INC -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 31 Jul 1998 20:27:04 -0700
Dan Ramsey wrote:
>
> ... Needs to be WYSIWYG.
D'oh! I was all set to recommend HomeSite (on the PC) and BBEdit (on
the Mac). As far as I'm concerned, they really shine.
In light of your second requirement, though ...
> Shouldn't mangle HTML tags.
... I'm not sure *what* I'd recommend. I've tried a few, including
PageMill (Mac 1, Mac 2, and PC 3), FrontPage, and the program formerly
known as RoboHTML.
One deleted any attributes it didn't recognize, another inserted a *ton*
of proprietary pseucocode, another actually lopped off everything after
the first 50 or so kilobytes in each source file.
Good luck!
--David
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