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khtmledit is here

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I have had so much struggle finding a decent html editor that I finally wrote one on my own:

  • mozilla composer cannot handle the fish://-protocol
  • openoffice dito
  • quanta crashes when it sees me
  • I finally started using kword, which cost me several months of fighting and finally even contributing code, but there are too many problems for using it where I work.

OK, so I started khtmledit - the wysiwyg html editor that has everything you need (if it does not have anything - you don't need that Eye-wink First, here is how it looks:

The following was important for me during design:

  • Work with the fish:// protocol so I can finally change pages directly on my server. No more struggling with up/downloading
  • Have WYSIWYG so I see if I run into problems.
  • Have a plain text widget so I can do any change allowed by html
  • Follow the 80/20 rule - 20 percent of your actions are done in 80% of the cases, so make them easy
  • Make that I can use it

I like my new editor a lot, however it requires some work. E.g. the fish://-protocol does not seem to work with KDE 4. Anyway, this is the first editor I can use at work. Download it at http://www.staerk.de/thorsten/index.php/Khtmledit