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BlueGriffon 1.2.1 hit the streets

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It seems that Blue Griffon is on the road of a succesfull WYSIWYG editor on Linux (available for other OS too). In May they released Version 1.0 and now 1.2.1 is available.
Version 1.2.1 is a bugfix release of 1.2 which ships with a lot of new features. Besides the open source main software they developed some cheap, usefull, commercial addons too.
On my notebook i replaced now Kompozer with Blue Griffon because it's lively developed and seems much more up-to-date.

BlueGriffon 1.0 will be available on 10. May

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It seems the WYSIWYG webeditor will ship in a few days including CSS3 und HTML5 support: http://www.bluegriffon.org

At all it looks interesting and is may a good addition to my favorite gedit.

Kompozer 0.8 Beta

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While it seem that the BlueGriffon WYSIWYG Webeditor project is dead, the Kompozer project is still alive and kicking. After the 4th alpha, now a first beta of Kompozer 0.8 is availabe for download.

New in 0.8 beta are:
* FTP support
* Syntax highlighting in split view
* Ability to edit text files
* Better PHP support on GNU/Linux
* New icon UUID

A lot of localisations for Kompozer 0.8 are available too.

UPDATE
The 0.8 beta of Kompozer is available as a deb package on GetDeb.net.

Kompozer 0.8 Alpha 4

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While there are no news updates since January of the BlueGriffon WYSIWYG Webeditor project, the Kompozer project is still alive and kicking. A 4th alpha (which runs pretty stable) of Kompozer 0.8 is availabe for download. Kompozer 0.8 is focused on a new Mozilla core and the new UI displays more relevant information about the current HTML element: DOM tree, style properties, HTML code.
A lot of localisations for Kompozer 0.8 are available too.

How to get Kompozer 0.8 running:
* Make sure the package "xulrunner" is installed
* Download the Kompozer 0.8 binaries for Linux
* Extract the archive as root in "/opt/kompozer"
* Now create a new starter at your Gnome main menu or panel with command:
    "/opt/kompozer/kompozer".