simple HTML editor with no install?

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Dos-Man

I need to edit HTML files on the fly when I am away from
home. At home I just use OpenOffice, I need something small
that I can take with me.

dos-man
 
(e-mail address removed) (Dos-Man):
I need to edit HTML files on the fly when I am away from
home. At home I just use OpenOffice, I need something small
that I can take with me.
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You might have a wider range of choices if you don't limit to seeking a
no-install release. Some 99% of the progs released only using setup.exe
etc do it without need or justification. Yet it's unfortunately difficult
to find too many developers who offer a clean distribution of their program.

If the prog is using personal DLLs or OCXs, then keep them together in the
same directory as the EXE. Most progs will then find those and auto-register
them when you launch the executable. (Actually, maybe skip anything that
uses _any_ OCXs, or too many DLLs, as that correlates with a lot of registry
bloat.)

Or is it that you're looking for something that doesn't use the registry at
all? So that you can move prefs between one machine and another, without
having to go through import/export hassles?
 
Try the old FrontPage Express which was included last in ie 5.01, that may
work
just by clicking the .exe file.

I need to edit HTML files on the fly when I am away from
home. At home I just use OpenOffice, I need something small
that I can take with me.

dos-man
 
omega said:
(e-mail address removed) (Dos-Man):


You might have a wider range of choices if you don't limit to seeking a
no-install release. Some 99% of the progs released only using setup.exe
etc do it without need or justification. Yet it's unfortunately difficult
to find too many developers who offer a clean distribution of their program.
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Karen, you said it perfectly. Years ago, I emailed Zdnet to provide
noinstall versions of the PC Mag utilities, and the answer was the
newbies needed easy install. What they missed is that newbies can't use
those utilities anyway, too complex. And that's still true for lots of
what I see today.

Mike Sa
 
ms said:
Karen, you said it perfectly. Years ago, I emailed Zdnet to provide
noinstall versions of the PC Mag utilities, and the answer was the
newbies needed easy install. What they missed is that newbies can't use
those utilities anyway, too complex. And that's still true for lots of
what I see today.
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It's damned strange to imagine that people who don't know how to click an
executable from their hard drive, much less create links to it on their
menu, would be seeking file wipers, registry tools, encryption, etc. [1]

Then even for simple programs, say a basic calculator or notepad, why the
heck limit the prog to an annoying install distribution?

Many developers feel pressure to provide an install/uninstall release
because of the horrid trend for the major software sites to have that
"install/uninstall support" checkbox there, as if it were a good thing.
And some of those sites, like TuCows, even require installers. We might
not be able to turn that particular tide, with the big sites. But it
would be helpful if we could do anything towards getting more developers
to take up the practice of providing the choice of a small & clean release,
without an installer, equally available on their site.

Why is it so much to ask for a noinstall download, for a group who surely
is not small - namely, those who have "mastered that advanced skill" (?)
of clicking on an .exe.



/Karen

_________

[1] Yet, re PC Mag utils, I admit that they're right in that it's not
the strange imaginings of developers only, responsible. I've seen evidence
on the PCMag boards of some pretty lost maroons. One example was an AOLer
who put a PCMag util into its download folder, then a few days later
thought its computer "broke" (16 colors, maybe booted into safe mode)...
It first called AOL "tech" (oxymoron) support. They then told it to blame
PCMag. And that's what it proceeded to do, hinting that it was going to
sue, etc. =)

.. . .

footnote to footnote [1]

Yet the above, doesn't that type of situation make for a good argument for
then _completely avoiding_ giving out any kind of "wizard installer" with
more "advanced" utils?
 
(e-mail address removed) (Dos-Man) wrote in
I need to edit HTML files on the fly when I am away from
home. At home I just use OpenOffice, I need something small
that I can take with me.

dos-man
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I'm not trying to be funny, and I've already read the comments below. You
already have it. It's called Notepad.

Learn to write and edit HTML and you won't need an editor.

Learning HTML was the last great DIY adventure for me, and ranked up there
with learning to program in BASIC and building my own telescope.
 
donutbandit said:
(e-mail address removed) (Dos-Man) wrote in


I'm not trying to be funny, and I've already read the comments below. You
already have it. It's called Notepad.

Learn to write and edit HTML and you won't need an editor.

Learning HTML was the last great DIY adventure for me, and ranked up there
with learning to program in BASIC and building my own telescope.
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I do know HTML already. Helpers are easier.
More importantly, they are faster.
My time is limited right now.

dos-man
 
May I be so bold as to recommend you look at :
WYSIWYG Web Builder 1.02.
A real What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get Web page builder. It is in the style of
the original app that Microsoft bought to rename as Frontpage all those
years ago. It is a "no install" app as you specified. It is available as
freeware from http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/downloads.html

He also has a no install FTP app. on this page thats worth trying.

Rgds
Trevor
 
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