webWord — Perfect!
I arrived back tonight from Melbourne and checked Scripting News:
…we’re gradually creating new layers of technology that allow developers of desktop tools to move the user interface for writing for the Web outside of the limited confines of the browser… Eventually this will yield a new kind of word processor, one that’s custom-fitted to writing for the Web.
Hooray! I like browser-based editing but I hate it too. It makes sense, if you’re writing for the Web, for your writing tool to have strong hooks to the browser. But actually writing in a Web form sucks. I’ve had chunks of text disappear from the browser-based editor and I know others have too. To avoid losing posts I go through this convoluted process:
- write the bulk of a post and add the links in Dreamweaver
- copy the source code and paste it into the source view of the editing form
- click the Post button to insert the content into the object database
- reopen the post and fine-tune it in WYSIWYG view
- preview it (by loading http://127.0.0.1:5335/index.txt in a separate browser window)
- click Post & Publish.
What a kludge. But it’s better than constantly clicking the Post button and then reopening the post by clicking the Edit button. (Though if anyone can suggest a better method, please tell me about it.) Bring on the custom-fitted Web word processor!
I like to use Radio's notepad for longer posts.
Posted by: Curtis on 16 March 2002 at 12:44 AM