[TriLUG] Good wysiwig editor for very simple forms?

[Mark Kempster]

For the code-by-hand-and-see-what-happens folks, this Webstorm / chrome combination might be of interest. Webstorm is from the intellilj folks - the plugin updates a neighboring chrome window when html changes happen

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jetbrains-ide-support/hmhgeddbohgjknpmjagkdomcpobmllji

And here's more marketing material
http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/webhelp/live-editing-of-html-css-and-javascript.html

I'm in no way affiliated with Jetbrains, just a recent user of this particular product. I've found it pretty handy thus far.

This presentation on angular demonstrates the feature - skip past the first half of the presentation and jump to the live-coding portion of the demo to see it in action. The text is pretty blurry, but most of it is good enough to get the gist of what's going on.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/AngularJS-Demo?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email 

- Mark


On Monday, April 22, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Kevin Hunter Kesling wrote:

> At 11:41am -0400 Sun, 21 Apr 2013, Andy Barnhart wrote:
> > I am working on a project on the BeagleBone where I am doing some UI
> > by providing a very simple web server. I use HTML forms and text
> > substitution as I serve them up and the process the submit command
> > lines. This is working fine; just providing some background as to
> > why the HTML needs to be simple (in one file; no css). I have been
> > using gedit.
> > 
> 
> 
> I'm not entirely sure for what it is that you are asking, so I'll give 
> two options:
> 
> 1. If you mean a pretty online HTML forms with RTF capabilities,
> TinyMCE has been my goto choice for some time. Failing gracefully
> to standard textarea inputs when no JavaScript, and producing 100%
> compliant output is a plus.
> 
> 2. If you are asking for something to help you create HTML forms,
> rather than using a prebuilt alternative, I can suggest two routes:
> by hand or Amaya. Both require a true understanding of HTML and CSS
> to enable effective utilization.
> 
> Personally, I'm in the by-hand camp. The only tool that I built for 
> myself was a simple auto reloading browser so that I could see my 
> results instantly after a save (rather than having to perform some 
> keyboard combination) and show me any warnings or errors in a Growl-like 
> notification.
> 
> Kevin
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