Decent HTML editor?

[Joshua Tinnin]

On Saturday 12 March 2005 10:59 pm, bsdzz <bsdzz at verizon.net> wrote:
> Is there a simple HTML editor that is known to be pretty good in the
> ports tree?
>
> I've been using Abiword for wordprocessing, and it has a "Save as
> HTML" feature which I plan to try. I was just curious if there was
> something else I should try using.  I'm not using OpenOffice, as it
> seems a little bloated lately.  My desktop is Fluxbox, though I have
> Gnome  installed. Maybe KDE has a really good one?  I prefer to keep
> my system lean if possible (its a P3-650 laptop).

Are you talking about an HTML generator? As for editing pretty much any 
web code, I prefer vim with syntax highlighting, then I use Firefox 
with HTML Tidy to validate. I know, that's pretty old school (I used to 
use Tidy with other tools for validation, and sometimes still do), but 
it's simple and efficient and I can use it pretty much anywhere. I've 
never been happy with any HTML generator, so I'm not too familiar with 
all the varieties - Dreamweaver is the only one I personally know to be 
decent, though it's commercial and not ported to *BSD. Quanta (now part 
of kdewebdev) is a pretty decent gui web development tool by KDE, have 
used it on occasion, though from what I gather it's more useful if you 
have a large project and/or use something besides flat HTML, like php. 
If you just need simple, flat HTML and you really don't want to learn 
how to code it yourself, you might want to try Amaya.
/usr/ports/www/amaya - http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
I haven't done more than play around with it, but the code should at 
least be better than most office-suite generators, as it's made by w3c.

- jt