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FoolishOwl

@Ralph That's interesting.

I'm thinking in terms of how to make it really easy to publish on the Internet; I'm impressed by the possibilities of static site generators and markdown. My point about text is that people shouldn't have to be worried about web design if they want to do something as simple as publishing essays.

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Omnivore

@foolishowl

I used the WYSIWYG HTML editor called Mozilla Composer. It was very simple as long as you just want text, images, lists, tables, and links (no CSS nonsense or ECMAScript). It looks like the latest iteration is Nvu (pronounced "N-view").

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_

You can see an example of the result here:

instrumentation.conlang.org/in

I haven't actually used Nvu, but it's here:
nvu.com/

@foolishowl

I used the WYSIWYG HTML editor called Mozilla Composer. It was very simple as long as you just want text, images, lists, tables, and links (no CSS nonsense or ECMAScript). It looks like the latest iteration is Nvu (pronounced "N-view").

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_

You can see an example of the result here:

FoolishOwl

@Ralph From reading through the Wikipedia page, Nvu was an active project from 2004 to 2005, then shelved in favor of KompoZer, which was an active project until 2010.

SeaMonkey is still an active project and includes Seamonkey Composer, a descendant of Mozilla Composer.
seamonkey-project.org/

Omnivore

@foolishowl

Cool, I was actually using IceApe, which was the Debian (copyright free) version of Seamonkey. I didn't want to go down that rabbit hole unless you were already versed in Linux branching.

Good luck with your quest for HTML simplicity!

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