When htmlText goes wrong

[Richmond]

On 04/01/14 15:21, Graham Samuel wrote:
> Richmond, thanks, seems like a great idea. Needless to say I'd never heard of Kompozer. Sadly I can't get it to do anything. I installed it on my Mac, then I put my (obviously flawed) html text into the main window, save, and then say I want to see it in my browser. The browser (Firefox) just shows me the raw text and doesn't render it at all - this is a lot worse than LiveCode did. How can I tell what's wrong? And what do you mean by the 'kiddy-thing'? If you mean just compose your html in Komposer, well I have a lot of pre-existing text so that's a non starter for me.
>
> Any more top tips?
>
> TIA
>
> Graham

Kompozer is a program designed for slobs like me who either cannot be 
bothered to learn html or don't have the time.

I use RunRev's Livecode so I don't have to learn C++, 
'Super-Licketty-Split Pascal', 'Fortran on Crack' or any of the other 
computer
languages that require a hell of a lot of heavy lifting; luckily Kevin 
Miller and Co. have already done the heavy lifting for me.

I usually buy cars with wheels already made, instead of mining and 
smelting the metal, going out to Malaysia to tap rubber trees
(for the tyres) and so on.

Kompozer is a way to get your website without the heavy lifting: it has 
got to be good!

I designed my website with it by simply dragging images into it, text 
boxes and so on; totally WYSIWYG.

Then, if you want to, you can "go round the back" and twiddle with the 
html code.

Under the 'Help' menu there is a link to the User Guide webpage where it 
is all explained very plainly.

Failing that, go here: http://www.charlescooke.me.uk/web/ugs03.htm

The whole thing works rather like a desktop publishing suite, except for 
web-sites rather than book layout.

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By the 'kiddy-thing' I mean exactly what Kompozer is designed for; 
assemble all the rather materials you want to
put in your html document (pictures, text, background images, spacers 
and so on) and quite literally drag-n-drop them into Kompozer
as per the instructions.

I started work with a progrom called Nvu (Kompozer's predecessor) about 
8 years ago after having made an awful fool of myself trying to
build a couple of websites without, frankly, putting anything like the 
required effort into learning html; and never looked back.

I do have an O'Reilly Html book and tend to tweak the finished product, 
but would never dare to try an html document from code alone.

Richmond.

>
> On 4 Jan 2014, at 12:17, Richmond wrote:
>
>> Here's a thought:
>>
>> download Kompozer: http://www.kompozer.net/download.php
>>
>> try your html in there; or, if you are a lazy so-and-so like me,
>> just do the 'kiddy-thing' and then take the html code and pop it where it's needed.
>>
>> Richmond.
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