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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1><font color="maroon">Bluefish HTML Editor</font></H1>
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<H4>By <a href="mailto:chimbis@skjoldebrand.org">Martin Skjøldenrand</a></H4>
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<P>A few months ago, I wrote a
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<A HREF="../issue46/skjoldebrand.html">review</A> of an HTML-editor ported from
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Windows: CoffeeCup. I found a quite a few bugs in that version, and don't
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actually know if a new one has been made available for Linux. I know that new
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Windows versions has been poping up regularly. So the search has been going on
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for a reliable and powerful HTML editor in which I can do all my HTML page
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construction. I can say I've found a good candidate for such a beast. It isn't
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Homesite--but then, it is isn't finished yet.
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<P><A HREF="http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/">Bluefish</A> is in version 0.3.4 as
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of this writing (early June 2000). So according to version number it is very
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early yet, but it is still a quite powerful editor.
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<P>As can be seen from the picture, it has all the button rows, tabs and menues
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one could ask for. The standard button row is for creating a new document,
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opening, saving, undo/redo, etc. All standard stuff. Then we've got a series of
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tabs which are generally well laid out but unfortunately not configurable at
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this time. Unfortunate, because the quick bar is supposed to contain the most
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used tags - but lacks the Heading tags, which are on the Fonts tab. While,
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structurally logical, it is not user-friendly. While I'm on about weird
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thing about the tabs, I'll mention an irritating bug that's been around for
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some versions: the Form wizard. It's long, very, very long. I
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have to scroll horizontally two screenfuls to find the close button. And
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while the other Wizards are pretty useful (New Page, Font,
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Tables, Frames, Lists, CSS, PHP, etc.), the Forms wizard is broken and
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should be avoided. Even if it were working, it creates only the opening and
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closing tags. While the button rows and wizards are good, you can also add tags
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using the menus. These are well laid out, and I believe they contain tags
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not available through the buttons and wizards. Another bug which has surfaced
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in this version is that the cursor disappears from time to time, making it
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hard to know exactly where you are in the text.
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Regarding about menus, I can't say much about the help system. There isn't one,
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at least not in the version I am running (there was one earlier?).
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Even though that may be a disappointment, I didn't miss it much. One thing that
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is missing is Imlib support, which is necessary for the Image wizard.
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Imlib isn't installed standard on Red Hat. Without that you
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have to write you own image tags. Which is a pain. (Not as bad as writing your
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own table tags, but still a pain). Fortunately, you just install it off the CD
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and then you may happily create images in you HTML documents in no time.
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<P> To summarize, Bluefish is a very strong HTML editor, with nice looks as
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well. It will be interesting to see where this one is going. It is not Homesite
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(the well known Allaire editor for Windows) but it might get there.
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Copyright © 2000, Martin Skjøldenrand<BR>
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Published in Issue 55 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, July 2000</H5>
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