Stefan Chirila's Blog

I have played a little with Nvu and I must say that even if I like the way you can edit the pages in WYSIWYG mode, I don't like that you cannot see the source in the same time. I like to see that in an editor. I also didn't find it very intuitive. There should be a way to see all the html pages in a directory through a file system browser. You shouldn't be constrained to make a project in order to have the pages at hand. Another issue that concerns me is how much updated it gets. It doesn't seem to be maintained. The last version (1.0) is from June last year. It loses so many points for this issue that it really doesn't even worth to talk about it anymore. Amaya on the other hand lets you see the source while you modify the pages in WYSIWYG mode. This tool is highly maintained; it reached version 9.5 this April. It started in 1996 as a HTML + CSS style sheets editor. But become much powerful over the years. And the main thing is that it's powered by W3C, the web...

Looking for a html editor tool for doing some static html work I stumbled upon PSPad, an old friend of mine, that I used almost two years ago. I liked the Code Explorer that was very flexible and could give you a list of the functions from the file you're editing, be it JavaScript, C or Java. Nice tool and I am glad that these people didn't drop the project and kept improving it. Also in my search for open source WYSIWYG html tools I found two such tools, that I might give a try: * NVU * Amaya Both look interesting, but at first glimpse a little bit unusable. I'll try to review them the days to come.

Didn't blog for a while. I won't blame time, too much work or something in particular. To be honest, I didn't miss me on the blog, even though I was almost the only reader (there was a comment from someone long time ago regarding the GTD Hipster PDA). I did a lot of analyzing and from my blog reading experience I figured that a post from a blog shouldn't be bigger than 20 or 30 lines of text. Such a post should be concise and transmit something. If you have more than one idea that you want to discuss, use another post. Maybe there should be Mini blogs, short and full of knowledge.