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Cathy, in this case it seems to me the most common, cross-platform
choice would be the Netscape editor.

I think you're quite right about the snazzy commercial ones:

> The problem for those working on DE courses is that we have to go
> for the best common program.  In other words, we can't ask DE
> students to purchase an expensive piece of software just for one
> course.  We either need an on-site piece of software that everyone
> can access just for the duration of the course (and that's what
> WebBoard, the program I talked about, promised to be) or we need a
> common ground software like Word that everyone purchases anyway
> because it has multiple uses.

Visual Page, and HoTMetaL, and DreamWeaver all seem to me to have
the problem that they're unique and the student would have to go get
them, and pay for them . . . and when she had them, they wouldn't be
what other people had.  They may be good (though I tried both
HoTMetaL -- a year ago -- and DreamWeaver -- last term -- and gave
up on both fairly quickly, and maybe prematurely), but they all look
pretty proprietary to me.  I'm still waiting for the HTML equivalent
of, say, PC Write . . . in the meantime, the Netscape editor is
what's at hand.

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