Re: success - across the board

Gary,

You write -

> How is Amaya in a different league than NVU?
>
> Both are tools that serve different purposes. In Amaya you can do things  
> you
> cannot do in NVU. In NVU you can do things you cannot do in Amaya. To say
> Amaya is in a different league than NVU really is not a correct  
> statement.

Well, it might be a correct statement if I provided some justifcation for
making it!

My experience with NVU was this: It radically altered the HTML in a large
number of pages in my web site - WITHOUT WARNING ME IT WAS GOING TO DO
THIS! It filled by source files with lines and lines of empty space. It
inserted superfluous nonsensical name and id attributes in my HTML header
tags when I already had usable anchors present. It produced HTML which I
did NOT write, and which made Tidy roll over and die.

I was appalled, and screamed long and loud on the NVU list. Not one person
got it that the future of the web is standards compliant web sites - FOR
THE SAKE OF PEOPLE WHO CAN BENEFIT A GREAT DEAL FROM WEB ACCESS *if* it's
accessible to them. My business is helping people. This is a core value to
me. I don't think much of people who code up web page simply to get them
to work - for them - and couldn't care less about other people. The
developers of NVU clearly are in that camp. I do not think they deserve
our respect. They certainly don't have mine. They haven't done their
homework and they don't understand the Internet, viewed from a big picture
perspective.

It took me over two days of full time work to put my web site back
together, after NVu mangled it, and I'm STILL removing from my source
those superfluous id and name tags. This was simple a really bad
experience for me.

I got involved with NVU because I desperately needed a WYSIWYG HTML editor
so I could simply get on with writing in a multitude of documents I'm
developing for web publishing. Writing in a text editor, or a word
processor which generates HTML (MS Word - gak! OpenOFfice Write - better,
but it still radically messes with my HTML) was a less than ideal
solution, especially if I want the documents to be up on-site and
available, while I continue to develop them. I needed something that
respects my HTML, as I work only in XHTML Strict, and try hard to achieve
level II accessibility (as specified by W3C).

**AMAYA DOES THIS!**

My productivity has increased distinctly since I've switched to AMAYA as
my primary web writing tool. It's that simple. And I don't have to go
"correct" my HTML after it's pass through AMAYA. Isn't this the way things
SHOULD be?

> I still cannot get Amaya to run stable, it keeps crashing in Windows XP.

I can understand your frustration. It has, so far, crashed for me only
once, but I'm not asking it to do a great deal for me. Since it's so rich
in functionality, I'd expect that stability might be a real problem in
certain contexts. Let's hope that the problems can be found and fixed. The
developers certainly seem responsive and interested in user problems.
(Something which I can promise you is NOT the case with NVu.)

-- t.

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Tom Cloyd, MS MA, LMHC
Private practice Psychotherapist
Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A: (360) 920-1226
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Tom Cloyd, MS MA, LMHC
Private practice Psychotherapist
Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A: (360) 920-1226
<< TC.BestMindHealth.com / BestMindHealth.com >>
<< tomcloyd@bestmindhealth.com >>
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Received on Thursday, 29 December 2005 01:11:24 UTC