Best WYSIWYG editor?

[OMJD]

Hi,

What are the best HTML WYSIWYG editors for Linux? I am in need of one, preferably free.

Thanks in advance. :)

- Rich

[LaRoza]

Hi,

What are the best HTML WYSIWYG editors for Linux? I am in need of one, preferably free.

Thanks in advance. :)

- Rich

Search for the other threads on this. They are all free.

Searching Synaptic would also help...

[timcredible]

well, kompozer and bluefish and a few others are out there. however, if you're building a website, let me suggest you check out joomla first.

[kebes]

The ones I'm aware of are (see also this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=715027)):
Kompozer (http://www.kompozer.net/)
Quanta (http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/)
Blue Fish (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/)

[SunnyRabbiera]

Kompozer is pretty good, I use it often for quick editing.

[Ioky]

BlueFish is a WYSIWYG Software??? I don't think so, I mean it have a few function that put down the code like for you but it is not really a What you see is what you get software. What you see is what you get software is like DW, which you can just paste a image or text, and the software do all the code for you. You can't do that in BlueFish. You don't have to do anything HTML to use DW, but you do need to know HTML to use Blusfish

Please READ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueFish

[hessiess]

there is no sutch thing as a 'good' WYSIWYG editor. thay all produce messy code.

[LaRoza]

there is no sutch thing as a 'good' WYSIWYG editor. thay all produce messy code.

The best WYSIWYG editor is Gedit and Firefox with Firebug and the Web Developer toolbar.

(That is the only thing for which I use Fx)

[gsmanners]

I've seen this one (haven't tried it yet):

http://www.hypercubed.com/projects/firefox/

[MCrittenden]

NVU, Kompozer, and Aptana are all decent. Of the three, I've had the most luck with Kompozer. Easy to use, stable, produces decent results (as far as standards-compliant code goes). If you're going to use WYSIWYG, that's probably the best choice at the moment IMO.

That being said, I would highly recommend just writing the code yourself. HTML and CSS are EASY. They're hardly even programming languages. CSS can get a bit tricky when you start to mix positioning or mix floats with non-floats, stuff like that. However, this is all stuff that WYSIWYG editors wouldn't even begin to do for you. I PROMISE you that if you devote a couple hours to learning to handwrite code, you will be glad you did. When sites move out of the realm of absolute simplicity, then WYSIWYG editors just don't carry their weight anymore.

My two cents. Feel free to stick with Kompozer if you think it has all that you need.

P.S. The guy before me is right. Bluefish is an awesome code editor but has no WYSIWYG function.

[notwen]

I would recommend Kompozer as far as WYSIWYG goes. And for a solid text editor I would recommend Geany (http://geany.uvena.de/). Geany is also multi-platform should need to do some quick edits on a machine w/ a different OS. =]

[Dr Eigen]

I'm a fan of the old Mozilla Composer. No longer part of Firefox, you need the other fork for it (Icecat?). Doesn't do gee-wizzery, just plain simple HTML.

[graabein]

Check out this article on Linux.com last month:
Three Linux HTML editors reviewed (http://www.linux.com/feature/130601)