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Comment by seanwessmith | Hacker News Reader

Why isn't there a MS Word for creating HTML?

Actually, it used to be called Frontpage. It was pretty workable, but if you were able to figure it out, you were probably better off just learning HTML and CSS anyway. Creating anything beyond a really basic table layout was pretty maddening, IIRC.

The typical problem with WYSIWYG webpage builders is that the web is not a printed document. If you don't know the underlying concepts of layout you expect things to behave much differently than they actually do. Or at least, that was how it was for me.

A copy of Frontpage in middle school is what got me in to programming, back in the day.

One of my earliest memories of 'coding' (It seems silly to call it that now, but hey, I was 13!) was opening the generated html files to remove the "Created with Frontpage" html comments that were automatically injected.

It doesn't do a very good job of it, but the MS Word for creating HTML is MS Word.

I just tried it. It produced a 39kb file to render "123". So yeah pretty terrible!

That's enormous: how big is it compared to all the other frameworks and libraries and web fonts and etc?

It's called Dreamweaver.

In 1995, everybody believed in this myth. I was actually using an editor call HotDog from Sausage Software. More editors: http://literacynet.org/modules/softwarereview.html

I've always thought Macaw (http://macaw.co/) to come very close to this.

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