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Subject:Re: a beginner's html-editor? From:Jerry Kenney <gmkenney -at- MINDSPRING -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:08:03 -0500
AlQuin wrote:
> I am teaching web-editing courses and need some advice on a simple easy,
> cheap and wysiwyg html-editor for both windows and macintosh platforms.
I know you asked for an off line comment, but I see a larger question here. And
that is why teach web editing with a wysiwyg authoring tool.
HTML is not that complex that it requires an intermediary, especially in a
learning situation. Most GUI tools are self instructional, so learners ought
to be free to make their own preferences when the time comes. But for learning
purposes, I can see no better experience for finding out what calls a hypertext
page makes on network resources than by writing out the tags and commands in
text.
