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- WebWriter v0.1
-
- WebWriter is a freeware HTML tagging editor for Rhapsody.
-
- This WebWriter.app is not related in any way to Robert Bose's
- WebWriter.app for NeXTStep. The name comes instead from an OS/2 based
- program, WebWriter/2 that I developed from 1995-1997. I have, however,
- corresponded with Robert Bose to make sure that he had no objections
- to me using the name and he has indicated that he does not. Any
- resemblance between my WebWriter and his is purely coincidental.
-
- WebWriter, in its current form supports the HTML 3.2 specification and
- also includes support for some commonly used extensions such as FRAMEs.
- Currently this support is available only as menu options for inserting
- tags, attributes and entities. Future releases should be more 'user
- friendly' and include prompt dialogs to help out with tag and attribute
- syntax, drag and drop support, and other niceties. I'm releasing this
- version now so that those who prefer a tag based editor and would like
- to create HTML documents using a native Rhapsody tool will have
- something to work with.
-
- As with most tag based HTML editors, you select tags from WebWriter's
- Tags menu and they are inserted, at the cursor location, into your
- document. Unlike most other HTML editors, WebWriter also provides
- support for HTML attributes separate from the tags. If you want to add
- an attribute to a tag which is already in the document, you can select
- it from the Attributes menu and not have to resort to typing it in by
- hand.
-
- Support is also provided, via the Entities menu, for many of the
- commonly used ISO Latin 1 entities. Non-English character accenting is
- accomplished by typing the english version of the letter and then
- applying the accent to it from the Entities/Character Accenting menu --
- which will convert it to the appropriate entity.
-
- User preferences are rather sparse at this point and consist mostly of
- an option to have tags inserted in lower or upper case (the default).
-
- WebWriter is very much a work in progress and, as such, any feedback or
- feature requests are more than welcome. This is also my first
- programming project using Objective C, Project Builder and Interface
- Builder, so if anyone thinks I'm not doing things correctly, feedback
- along those lines is also welcome.
-
- Bug reports, suggestions, requests or anything else can be directed to
- me:
-
-
- John Blumel
- jblumel@acm.org
- jblumel@omi.tulane.edu
-