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1. Introduction

WebMaker is a HTML Editor for KDE - The K Desktop Environment. Main features:

WebMaker development was started after I found out that there is no good HTML editor available for Linux (and Unix in general). I don't like the ones I could find - asWedit (huge, commercial, with ugly interface and without many useful features - but this is the best), Amaya (I have no idea how to use it, its interface is really strange), Netscape and Star Office (huge monsters with pseudo-WYSIWYG editing approach - they are not very bad if you want to create something very simple and put this on the intranet site, but they are totally unusable in real work).

My goal now is to create a full-featured non-WYSIWYG HTML editor similiar to HomeSite (FlexED etc.). However, I want to take full advantages of Unix platform and develop it in a "Unix way" - with ability to use standard external utilities (grep, find etc.) where possible to avoid unnecessary duplicated code and optimize application for size, speed and flexibility.

1.1 New in this version

Customization and interface impovements. Toolbars (up to 8), key bindings, colors and many other things can be easily changed now for your needs. Better DnD support. Some small bugs fixed. Added some translations and documentation. Requires KDE-1.1 or higher. For details see ChangeLog.

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