What would like to see in a html editor

[jermaine]

I am making a WebPage Editor, where the users just have to click on buttons to insert code.
What i want to know is why kinda of features would you pay for in a web editor?

What would you want to see in a editor in general.?

looking for your opinion thanks

[sevenhalo]

Possibly a "Profile Wizard" where you can click on the different controls/elements and create CSS files through a form (basically, make CSS files without coding). Also, you should be allowed to have multiple CSS files avaliable and editable at once. No "Open CSS..." or "Close CSS..." Instead, have a dockable listbox with each CSS file you've created for that solution (or page or whatever your application tree is called).

From the listbox, you should also be able to select and apply that CSS image to individual controls/elements with one click of the mouse.

[gigemboy]

sevenhalo is on the right track. Its been a long while since I have used an HTML editor (I stick with notepad mostly), mainly because of the lack of a good CSS interface. All of the ones I have tried are clunky, or too hard to work with and manage. Find a nifty way to handle css and html seperately, but make them blend together nicely (if that makes any sense ) and have it simple to use and implement, and you have something good...

[jermaine]

cool thanks, any other ideas ?

[Kasracer]

The usual

• Syntax highlighting
• Possibly intelisense
• If there was some sort of debugger as good as the one in Visual Studio for PHP or JavaScript, that would be awesome but hard to impliment
• Some way to manage code snippets

Honestly though, I still wouldn't pay for that. PHP DESIGNER 2006 a lot of that and more (I don't think there is debugging) and it's free. Notepad++ is also free and works quite well. There are tons of free options. Heck, even my own BinaryEdit is free and the next version will contain many of the options I already mentioned.

Possibly a "Profile Wizard" where you can click on the different controls/elements and create CSS files through a form (basically, make CSS files without coding).

This has been built into Visual Studio since Visual Studio .Net 2002.

[jermaine]

true, but there are also some commercial ones.

[Kasracer]

true, but there are also some commercial ones.

Dreamweaver, as well as Adobe GoLive and Microsoft FrontPage are commercial because they support WYSIWYG web page development. That's hard to do on your own because you have to impliment your own rendering system for web pages. Also, none of those options I mentioned give 100% valid code, especially FrontPage.

So you can either make one like Notepad++ that I honestly don't see why anyone would purchase it since there are tons of free options, or a WYSIWYG editor which will take a long time to make and will be very difficult. Plus, you'd have to compete with Macromedia/Adobe and Microsoft (who actually discontinued FrontPage and is creating a whole new app that is supposed to be much better).

If you want to do this as a project/hobby, then go for it but if you're expecting to get any kind of return on this idea, then I'd say look for another project.

[jermaine]

i understand your opinion, but i have a few big ideas for this project, before i really get started on the next, (which got scratch as i just recently mistakely uninstalled vs and had reinstall it.).

Any way would anybody else like to see anything in a webpage editor?

[valentinorossi]

You got the idea to create buttons for putting in standard pieces of code simple image tags and sort or are you going to make a program for a higher level of users?

[tr333]

Dreamweaver, as well as Adobe GoLive and Microsoft FrontPage are commercial because they support WYSIWYG web page development.

NVU also supports WYSIWYG web page development, and it's open source.