On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:47:56 +0100, ian 
wrote:

> On Thursday 04 September 2008 3:07 pm, in MID
> , Eeyore
> (rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com) wrote:
> > "A.N. Onymous Esq" wrote:
>  
> >> What would people recommend as the best free WYSIWYG HTML Editor?
>  
> > Leave out WYSIWYG and 
> 
> Lots of far better editors available, such as those at
> http://freewarelist.net/notepad-replacement.html

And if you are willing to pay a reasonable sum for shareware, I don't
know how much because it was so long ago that I paid, and thus have
been using it freely ever since, TextPad is very good indeed.  It has
customisable syntax files for most common purposes and the more common
ones, including html and javascript, are either part of the download
and/or can be downloaded from the site separately.  There is also a
CSS one on the site.  Note I'm still on v4.7.3, though there is a v5.x
available.

WYSIWYG just doesn't seem to happen in HTML.  I agree with others,
you'll always get the least cluttered, best laid out and indented,
most compliant, code by learning to code it yourself.

Even if you get WYSIWYG in one browser that is W3C compliant such as,
just about I suppose, Firefox, then by definition you can almost
guarantee that WYSINWYG in a non-compliant browser such IE6.

Various versions of IE & FF are by far the most common browsers
visiting my own site ...
http://www.cemh.eclipse.co.uk/CEMH.html
... IME, therefore, if your code gets it right for both of them, you
won't be going far wrong.

Firefox 1.5.0           0.20%
Firefox 2.0.0           20.60%
Firefox 3.0             4.40%
Firefox 3.0.1           23.20%
Mozilla 5.0             6.20%
MSIE    6.0             13.80%
MSIE    7.0             25.40%
Opera   9.00            1.00%
Opera   9.27            0.40%
Safari  1.2             2.20%
Unknown or others       2.60%

Links that I have found useful ...

Tutorials and references:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa155073.aspx

HTML and CSS validators:

http://validator.w3.org/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

This one can traverse a published site up to 100 pages at a time,
sites a little larger can be done in two sweeps by judicious use of
starting point:

http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/

Doh!  Only just realised that I forgot to paste the link!

http://www.textpad.com/products/textpad/index.html

Sorry 'bout that ...

On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:45:21 +0100, Java Jive  wrote:
> 
> And if you are willing to pay a reasonable sum for shareware, I don't
> know how much because it was so long ago that I paid, and thus have
> been using it freely ever since, TextPad is very good indeed.  It has
> customisable syntax files for most common purposes and the more common
> ones, including html and javascript, are either part of the download
> and/or can be downloaded from the site separately.  There is also a
> CSS one on the site.  Note I'm still on v4.7.3, though there is a v5.x
> available.