If HTML authoring is a substantial part of your business, you can't afford to author at anything less than your typing speed. So why did I bore you with my personal story? It's so you understand, without doubt, that I'm a WYSIWYG fan due to speed, and when you read this document about using Bluefish, you're reading the words of a production man, not an HTML aficionado. Then the WYSIWYG HTML editor drought of 2012 forced me to go to a text editor. Even though, after 16 years creating content for Troubleshooters.Com, I was still only moderately literate in HTML, I used them to speed my work. So even though WYSIWYG HTML editors routinely spit out bad, nonstandard HTML that is only renderable though the largess of overly permissive browsers, I used them to speed my work. Slow enough to make me forget my train of thought while writing. Typing out tags is slow - remembering which codes to type out, and they're syntax, is a lot slower. Words per day is vital to the way I write, and the way I do business. And given the fact that the entire reason I used WYSIWYG HTML authoring tools was speed, and the fact that Bluegriffon was slowing me down, what the heck was I doing?īefore going on, let me explain why I used WYSIWYG editors for sixteen years, in spite of the fact that most of my technologist friends urged me to edit HTML directly. And of course there was the fact that Bluegriffon couldn't do certain things I was used to doing. But my laptop OS, OpenSuSE, didn't have Bluegriffon, it still had Kompozer. I switched to Bluegriffon, an "I'll show you" type fork from one of the original authors of Nvu or Kompozer.
Then came the great WYSIWYG HTML editor drought of 2013.
Bluegriffon suggestions not coming up in stylesheets windows#
By January 1997, WYSIWYG Netscape Gold was the Troubleshooters.Com HTML editor of choice.Īs time went on, and Troubleshooters.Com migrated from Windows to Linux, and then bounced between Linux distributions, the chosen web editor progressed through various descendants and forks of Netscape Gold: Netscape Composer, Mozilla Composer, Nvu, Kompozer.
Because it was WYSIWYG, it was much, much easier, faster, and less error prone than a text editor. When the first 25 pages of Troubleshooters.Com were written in the summer of 1996, MS Frontpage was my tool of choice. I used Notepad to write a couple websites in 1995. The page you're reading right now is about Bluefish's technical details. This web page is a package deal, with the other part of the package being the August 2013 Linux Productivity Magazine, themed Bluefish: Quality and Speed, which describes the many benefits of Bluefish.
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