Dropping support for Mozilla suite?

Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN Delbert.Hudson at LOSANGELES.AF.MIL
Wed Nov 24 15:24:24 UTC 2004


bryan,

do you know why vi and emacs are so closely tied to the unixian dev
community?
lets see if you know your unix history. hint....think bill joy and mit also.

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Bryan Pizzuti
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:45 PM
To: Ubuntu Users
Subject: RE: Dropping support for Mozilla suite?


Unless one prefers nano. :)  Personally I HATE vi and emacs (Yes, UNIX
sinner I am, sue me) but I'm stuck with them because UNIX and Linux
married themselves to those a long time ago. For simple text editing, I
don't see the advantantages of vi and emacs over nano. 

However, I DO see the advantages of a WYSIWIG HTML designer over a text
mode one. Some of my background is graphic design, and I have a better
time doing site designing with a visual tool (at least initially;
usually I'll use a text editor to clean up the HTML afterwards at
least). 

I think some have forgotten that OpenOffice.org Writer has support for
saving as HTML. That would be a viable replacement for the Mozilla
Composer, and it wouldn't even require additional space on the CD. ;)

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 08:04 -0800, Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN
wrote:
> people, people....hi, this is prof. old-puffen-n-stuf,
> 
> 	'html is text, mein little ones, and as text nothing is better than
> vi'
> 
> 	use the kiss principle.
> 
> out~
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Martin
> Alderson
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 8:19 AM
> To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com; Ubuntu Users
> Subject: Re: Dropping support for Mozilla suite?
> 
> 
> I don't think so.
> 
> There is very little chance that a fully featured web site authoring
> tool will come out of the OSS community for a while. Dreamweaver is
> the standard, and it's quite good.
> 
> Same with Fireworks or Illustrator, currently there is no good vector
> drawing program that can do web graphics (Fireworks is a big
> favourite).
> 
> NVu is horrible IMO, very clunky and terrible usability issues.
> 
> I think at this moment in time the best thing to do is point people
> towards a good web text editor (ie: support for CSS, HTML and JS
> syntax highlighting) and a copy of GIMP.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:06:07 +0100, Martin Pitt
> <martin.pitt at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > John Levin [2004-11-19 13:24 +0000]:
> > > I'd certainly miss Mozilla Composer - would support for Nvu be added
to
> > > Ubuntu?
> > 
> > We certainly need a good HTML editor. Personally I know only one (vim,
> > sorry folks :-) ), but I think it will not be a problem to hear the
> > voice and wishes of the community here.
> > 
> > > Is there a transcript of the Tuesday meeting online? I'd like to get
up
> > > to speed on this debate.
> > 
> >
>
http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~fabbione/irclogs/ubuntu-meeting-2004-11-16.ht
> ml
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Martin Pitt                       http://www.piware.de
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> > 
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> > 
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