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Comment by Animats

1 day ago

Imagine if there were programs that let you write HTML like using a word processor. And then they let you upload that file to a server.

I'm still using Dreamweaver 8 from 2004 to edit some sites. I paid for it as a boxed product, including the right to transfer it to a replacement computer. It's on its fourth replacement computer now, running under Wine emulation on Linux.

The sites load really fast.

There were a few attempts to build open source tools like Dreamweaver, but they all seem to have been abandoned.

Word still has the option to save as HTML (and if I remember correctly even edit it), but you get MS Outlook-style HTML output.

> Imagine if there were programs that let you write HTML like using a word processor. And then they let you upload that file to a server.

Composer, the HTML editor provided by the Seamonkey Internet Application Suite does just that.