Re: HyperTextMarkupLanguage (html)

[judasclair@cobra.uni.edu]

In article <CyL7qA.4vw@actrix.gen.nz>, dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
> In article <1994Oct31.234305.34331@cobra.uni.edu>,
>  <judasclair@cobra.uni.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Otherwise, any of you enterprising types out there... This is an open
>> area for development! IMHO there will be an explosion of Free-Nets
>> over the next few years and html editors will be in demand.  Food for
>> thought! 
> 

David Empson  (dempson@actrix.gen.nz) responded:


> Sounds like a good idea.  In the meantime, you should be able to do a
> perfectly good (if somewhat tedious) job with a standard text editor.
> All the necessary documentation on the HTML format is available on the
> Web.
> 
> I'm reasonably familiar with HTML, and I'm writing it directly in an
> editor on my UNIX host.  Not too bad for small documents, but it would
> certainly be nice to automate it for larger documents.
> 
> 
> Writing a GUI HTML editor might be a little tricky: you basically need
> a text editor with some kind of extension to set up links.  You can't
> just use TextEdit, because it doesn't support graphical objects or
> other custom inserted data types.  You would basically have to
> implement a full editor.  Not a simple task.
> -- 

David, I've seen HoTMetaL for Windows, HTML Editor for the Mac, and rtftohtml
for (I think) UNIX and Mac.  Not being a programmer, I'm not sure of the
magnitude of the task, but would love to have something available similar to
HoTMetaL. This is a nice program.  Correct me if I am wrong, but I do think
there would be a market for something like this.  Thanks for the reply.

Clair Judas


> David Empson
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz
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