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# Posted: 21 Nov 2007 01:15
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KompoZer by Kazé & KompoZer Team
Programming → Editors → WYSIWYG
KompoZer is an Open Source, complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding. KompoZer is based on Gecko, the layout engine inside Mozilla; it's a super-fast, very reliable, standards conformant engine maintained on a daily basis by a wide community of developers....
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SnickyBlack
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# Posted: 6 Apr 2009 18:49
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This is a GHOST. No download. Beware.
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Imagica
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# Posted: 6 Apr 2009 22:46
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Not sure what problem you found. I followed the link to the download page, brought down the file, unzipped it and everything seemed to be there and working.
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Dee
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# Posted: 7 Apr 2009 02:02 - Edited by: Dee
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SnickyBlack KompoZer is not just another bit of freeware from an unknown author. It originated as the web page authoring part of Netscape. It is Open Source & backed by the Mozilla community of developers.
The downloads are hosted on Sourceforge which, if the download doesn't start automatically as it should, can be a little confusing to navigate. However, a few seconds reading will lead you to the downloads, there is absolutely NOTHING to "beware" of.
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derelict
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# Posted: 10 Apr 2009 01:13 - Edited by: derelict
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HA!!! When I first read the forum page, I thought it said "Komposter" !!!
I was sure intrigued to see how *that* would be done in software; that would be almost as useful as "Blank Sheet of Paper"...
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Imagica
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# Posted: 10 Apr 2009 18:44
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Chuckle.
Presumably you were thinking of the "paperless office" that everybody talks about???
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Dee
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# Posted: 11 Apr 2009 14:55
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Well now let me think - a composter takes something useless & turns it into something useful so... if you took a web page made with Micro$loppy bloatware like Word or Front Page, opened it in KonpoZer, removed all the bloated "gotta-include-this-in-case-one-user-doesn't-have- it" code & then ran the "Markup cleaner" & the "Validate HTML" tools, you'll have changed an almost useless page into a much better one - ergo sum - Komposter!! <grin>
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derelict
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# Posted: 17 Apr 2009 09:37
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Whoops!! I think someone's getting kickbacks in this topic... maybe a percentage of profits?? 8-{O
But I think I'll try it out anyway, on my own (very simple) website. I just hope it doesn't smell like my last attempt at Komposting...
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Dee
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# Posted: 17 Apr 2009 14:42
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LOL Kickbacks from an open source program - kicks maybe ;-)
Seriously though, your site has clean, basic HTML code, there's nothing to clean up :-)
Although I have always liked KompoZer, from the time it was Composer & part of Netscape, it does have it's quirks. Like any WYSIWYG editor, it is capable of doing strange things so I always do a final code check in NoteTab.
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derelict
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# Posted: 28 Apr 2009 00:49
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Well, actually, I added a new page to my site, and it mostly handled the job very well... I had two issues with it:
1. every time I've done an edit, on any page, and then tried to upload the modified page to my web site, I get errors says something like "bare linefeeds found in ASCII document", and the upload just hangs indefinitely - in fact, I have to close the program to stop the transfer!! This happened with both BlazeFTP and with current Filezilla. Once I run a program that converts Unix newlines ("newline only") to DOS/Windows newlines (CR/LF), then the uploads go fine. I don't see "newlines" or "linefeeds" discussed anywhere in the rather sporadic help.
2. When I tried to add a new (table) row in my top-level menu, for my new program, I really couldn't get it to copy an existing row and paste it in the same format; it insisted on adding some other formatting stuff that made the row different. I ended up using my programmer's editor for that menu.
Also, when I went to the web site to look for online help or support forums, there wasn't anything in the way of useful help for this, and the forums look pretty sparse. Doesn't look like a very actively supported program.
<opposing opinion>
However, for the basic creation tasks, it worked very nicely, and I was impressed that it read all my existing pages in and was never confused about anything it saw. That was better than most so-called WYSIWYG web-editors that I've seen.
So, overall, I give it a three. I haven't tried any of the fancier stuff (css, etc) because, frankly, I'm an embedded-systems programmer (C and ASM for me, thank you), and my web-design skills stop pretty sharply at the HTML wall.
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