Re: Where is the Dreamweaver Killer?

Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Mozilla.org has liberated the world from the stranglehold Microsoft once 
> held over the most important software category of our generation, the 
> browser.  Faster, more capable, and far more secure, Firefox and those 
> who have contributed to it have done a tremendous service to us all.
> 
> Given Firefox's success, I've been surprised to see so little activity 
> in the second most important software category:  web authoring.
> 
> Currently Adobe appears to have a monopoly on the cross-platform market 
> for web authoring in both source and WYSIWYG modes.  There are other 
> tools which do a fair job with the WYSIWYG side but prevent the author 
> from tweaking the source, and there are any number of source editors 
> which are great but simply require more time and effort for many common 
> tasks than a good code generator with a layout mode can do.
> 
> It seems that a tool offering true "round trip" authoring, allowing the 
> author to switch between source and layout, would be the most welcome 
> compliment to Firefox.
> 
> I've tried to find such an open source tool, a true Dreamweaver Killer, 
> but I haven't found one yet.  Mozilla Composer appears to be EOLed, and 
> the few successors appear to be languishing if they're still in 
> development at all.
> 
> In much the same way that IBM and other large organizations have helped 
> fund Linux development, what would it take to pull together the 
> resources needed to make the world's greatest web authoring tool to 
> compliment the world's greatest browser?

Designing an editor is hard, I've said before.  But not all hope is lost...

http://www.activestate.com/OpenKomodo/