[Techtalk] HTML Editor

[Akkana Peck]

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:54:35PM +1100, Jacinta Richardson wrote:
> > The html editor which comes with Mozilla is pretty good.  It doesn't offer
> > the best of all generated html, and I'm not 100% certain that the
> > resultant html will be fully w3c compliant, but it isn't too bad.

Gina Lanik writes:
> I agree with Jacinta, and the code it produces is not nearly as bad as with
> other "editors". If you want the code fully compliant you can run it
> through a program called tidy afterwards or check with w3.org's validator.

(Full disclosure: I'm a mozilla editor developer and not impartial :-)

It also has a menu item to call up the W3C validator on the current page.

If you see mozilla's editor producing code that doesn't pass the
validator, please file a bug!  (bugzilla.mozilla.org, component
Editor: Backend)  I think there are a couple of specialized cases
known (usually arising from copy/paste) which can produce illegal
code, but in general that should never happen.  If it does, please
file a bug and let the developers know how to reproduce it!

If you don't need a wysiwyg editor, I hear raves about Bluefish.

	...Akkana