replacement for screem

nigel barker tech at hiroshima-is.ac.jp
Tue Jan 6 00:25:22 UTC 2009


I am currently using both kompozer and bluefish. I tried amaya for a 
while, but kids struggled with it.
We use kompozer from grade 4 up. I find it less buggy than Nvu was, and 
kids can install it at home (win or mac).
We use bluefish from grade 9 up.


nigel


David Van Assche wrote:
> We've been talking a bit about replacing screem for a better
> html/php/javascript editor. There are various choices that come to
> mind, and it probably makes sense to vote on here about which would be
> the best to support. In my experience there are 2 types of editors
> that people are interested in, the WYSIWYG kind, and the coder/hacker
> type. The first type is usually wanted by general web designers, and
> the second for developers. I think edubuntu, as it is aimed at schools
> should really have a nice WYSIWYG editor, but the only one that is
> kind of usable right now is kompozer, and to me it seems buggy as
> hell. Bluefish would be my vote for a developer based editor, but it
> may be too complex for schools. On the other hand, if we think of
> these editors as different animals, then we might be able to choose
> one which is WYSIWYG based, and the other code based... What are
> people's thoughts?
>
> Some possible choices include Quanta Plus, Kompozer, Bluefish, Amaya,
> and Sea Monkey.
>
> kind Regards,
> David Van Assche
>
>   




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