anybody here used the ibm websphere html editor?

[Tony Alfrey]

On Monday 04 March 2002 06:40 pm,dep wrote:
> well, one of the first things i should have learned yearts ago was
> not to make the headline so all-inclusive that it obviated the story,
> but i've done it with the subject above.
>
> anyone used the ibm wepbphere hp builder? impressions? 

I am using it, in conjunction with learning html from the O'Reilly 
books.  The first thing I learned about it is that it uses style sheets 
a lot, and that some older browsers do not render style sheets 
correctly.  So while it has not been perfect in this way, it has 
allowed me to quickly make a page, then go back in and change some of 
the html to make the style sheets right.  But I think this will not be 
an issue now that I just installed netscape 6.  It seems to write 
correct code for konqueror and IE.

One thing about it that I do not like is that it sometimes will not 
allow me to undo or delete a "thing" I have made on a page, so I have 
to go into the source and take it out.
I've been using the free version and just ordered the $69 version but 
it has not arrived yet.  BTW, I was not impressed with trying to buy 
software from IBM.  Can you say "clueless??"

> i'm given to
> understand that it needs some trick version of wine -- anybody know
> anything about that? 

It uses some sort of wine thing that sometimes barfs if I'm running 
several browsers at once (so I can test the page as I build it).  It 
hangs big time and I have to kill the wine process and start it again.  
This is, in my opinion, the software's biggest weak spot.
My $ .02


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Tony Alfrey
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