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  Review: Bluefish & CoffeeCup HTML Editors for Linux
LinuxMedNews Posted by Captain Fantastic on Wednesday April 26, 2000 @ 09:31 PM
from the M$-FrontPage-Alternatives-on-Linux dept.
Medical group practices are developing their own web sites using the popular Microsoft FrontPage web development tool. The FrontPage HTML editor is easy to use, time-saving, and allows direct HTML editing for those that prefer this approach to HTML creation and maintenance. Web developers considering a switch to Linux are interested in WYSIWYG HTML editor tools that will run native in Linux. Two Linux HTML editors fill that need, and they are available now. Digg this article

For those that support open source software, check out the Bluefish HTML editor. I usually ignore alpha release software, but I received so many raves about BlueFish I decided to give it a whirl. It did crash several times when using certain options like Preferences, but is much more stable than the Amaya web editor. An RPM package is available for Bluefish, so installation is quick and easy - check it out!

On the commercial side, the CoffeeCup HTML editor for Linux from Coffeecup software is also an excellent WYSIWYG HTML editor that runs natively in Linux. I used the CoffeeCup editor for two weeks (distributed as Shareware) and was impressed with it's stability and built-in features like canned JavaScript and CGI insertion. For a twenty dollar registration fee, how can you go wrong?

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    Re: Review: Bluefish & CoffeeCup HTML Editors for Linux
    by Fernan Aguero on Friday January 05, 2001 @ 08:06 PM
    Do you really think they are WYSIWYG? I really doubt it. Bluefish is not, for sure.
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    Re: Review: Bluefish & CoffeeCup HTML Editors for Linux
    by Lobsang Marques on Thursday July 26, 2001 @ 02:13 PM
    I'm on this situation now ! I'm switching to linux and can not find a good Wysiwyg html editor !
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    Re: Review: Bluefish & CoffeeCup HTML Editors for Linux
    by Lobsang Marques on Thursday July 26, 2001 @ 02:14 PM
    I'm on this situation now ! I'm switching to linux and can not find a good Wysiwyg html editor !
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    Re: Review: Bluefish & CoffeeCup HTML Editors for Linux
    by Bill on Thursday May 02, 2002 @ 01:28 AM
    The closest Linux application to DreamWeaver I have found so far is IBM's Homepage Builder. The upshot is having true WYSIWYG editing to lay down your page format faster than hacking it out. The downshot is the lack of scripting support (PHP/ASP). If you produce a high volume of static pages, Homepage Builder is a good solution. It's worth the price (The closest Linux application to DreamWeaver I have found so far is IBM's Homepage Builder. The upshot is having true WYSIWYG editing to lay down your page format faster than hacking it out. The downshot is the lack of scripting support (PHP/ASP). If you produce a high volume of static pages, Homepage Builder is a good solution. It's worth the price (
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    Re: Review: Bluefish & CoffeeCup HTML Editors for Linux
    by Jason Wallwork on Tuesday June 11, 2002 @ 11:12 AM
    Yeah, real good calls there, Captain Fantastic. Look up WYSIWYG before you make such a lame response.
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    Re: Review: Bluefish & CoffeeCup HTML Editors for
    by John Coonrod on Saturday August 24, 2002 @ 11:19 PM
    The Composer component of Mozilla 1.0 is the closest thing I've seen to an easy-to-use wysiwyg linux html editor. It does nothing about site management, tho, which is the great strength of FrontPage.
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    Re: Review: Bluefish & CoffeeCup HTML Editors for Linux
    by Cyberfish on Saturday September 14, 2002 @ 01:24 PM
    Frontpage Sucks... that's all there is to it. You can teach a retarded monkey to use it and that's the bottom line! Dreamweaver has been the only WYSIWYG editor I've found that is actually decent for designing high-impact, professional websites. (Frontpage appears to do this, but if you want to go edit the code later, you can't in a standard text editor... that's why DW is referred to as 'round-trip'... because you can use the AWESOME WYSIWYG interface and still go in and change the code if necessary...) But really, if you get technical about it... most of DWs wonderfulness comes from the fact that it has really cool aspects that integrate it with Fireworks and Flash. I'm a Linux fan all the way... I LOVE LINUX!!!!!! But, I'm a web designer, and I'm not ready to toss DW out the window because of my absolute hatred for proprietary stuff and my affection for open source solutions. When a truly 'WYSIWYG' editor for linux comes out that is 'round-trip' let me know... I'd love to jump on that bandwagon... but until then, I am sadly chained to my M$ Windows... -Cyberfish
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    Re: Review: Bluefish & CoffeeCup HTML Editors for Linux
    by vrykolaka on Thursday November 21, 2002 @ 07:48 AM
    LOL

    I just realised this is not Slashdot :)
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    Re: Review: Bluefish & CoffeeCup HTML Editors for Linux
    by Anomymous Coward on Thursday November 21, 2002 @ 09:33 PM
    Cofeecup=wysiwyg, bluefish=source
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    Re: Review: Bluefish & CoffeeCup HTML Editors for Linux
    by Anomymous Coward on Thursday November 21, 2002 @ 09:33 PM
    Cofeecup=wysiwyg, bluefish=source
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    Re: Review: Bluefish & CoffeeCup HTML Editors for
    by Corporal Incredible on Monday November 24, 2003 @ 08:51 PM
    The Coffeecup software for Linux is free, not shareware as the captain indicated, and unfortunately not open source either. I have not yet confirmed whether it is crap or not.
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    Re: Review: Bluefish & CoffeeCup HTML Editors for
    by Flibble on Friday April 23, 2004 @ 11:13 AM
    http://www.nvu.com
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