RE: Need Suggestions for a Basic (Free or Inexpensive) HTML Editor

Subject: RE: Need Suggestions for a Basic (Free or Inexpensive) HTML Editor
From: "Will Sansbury" <wsansbury -at- alpha -dot- ipswitch -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:24:46 -0400

Hey Roger,

This falls in the wild brainstorm category, but... I've used a single-file
personal wiki called TiddlyWiki before that uses Javascript to write changes
to the HTML file. It's pretty slick--all in the browser. You might be able
to take some techniques from it to create a way for users to edit the files
easily (say, Ctrl+F11 invokes edit mode, then they click on a block of text
to make it editable).

This would probably work better for loose HTML files, but it might work for
HTML Help if they make their modifications pre-compile. I don't think it'd
work inside the CHM viewer (but I'd love to be wrong on that one...).

I've wanted to try this approach to simplify the one-off edits some of our
OEM partners make, but it's always been too low a priority...

Will Sansbury


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> I am looking for a bare bones HTML editor (other than
> Notepad) that we might license and make available to our
> users. The goal is to allow our users, who likely do not know
> HTML code, to easily customize the text of HTML Help files.
> In a previous job, I used HTML Search and Replace, with which
> I performed quick editing on multiple files at once.
>
> We only want to support a single editor for users to
> customize the Help files. This way we may prevent them from
> opening the files in Word and adding proprietary code that
> does who knows what to the overall Help system. However, we
> want a WYSIWYG interface that does not expose or break the HTML code.
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas. I am on Digest, so no need
> to write me separately. We have plenty of time to decide.
>
> Thanks,
> Roger Bell
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printed documentation. Features include support for Windows Vista & 2007
Microsoft Office, team authoring, plus more.
http://www.DocToHelp.com/TechwrlList

True single source, conditional content, PDF export, modular help.
Help & Manual is the most powerful authoring tool for technical
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