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by ZeroClickOk 1023 days ago
The natural upgrade for WordPad did never come: basic html or markdown editing.
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afandian 1023 days ago
Aren’t you describing Frontpage Express? I think it was bundled with Windows 98?
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reassembled 1023 days ago
Oh man, FrontPage. I haven’t heard that name in 20 years. I got started learning how to make web pages in FrontPage and then branched out to editing HTML in notepad, aided with my trusty copy of HTML for Dummies.
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pixelpoet 1023 days ago
I remember thinking I was hot shit after switching from FrontPage to Macromedia Dreamweaver for my geocities site... those truly were the days :D
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ZeroClickOk 1023 days ago
no so complex.. just everything that a online wyswyg editor like tinymce can do, saving as a single HTML file instead
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altintx 1023 days ago
Frontpage Express was an IE activeX control with contentEditable set to true. There was plenty of functionality around building <table> or whatever but comparing it to TinyMCE is absolutely right. Just 6 years before FckEditor was a thing.
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badsectoracula 1023 days ago
Frontpage Express was basically WordPad that saved HTML instead of RTF/DOC.
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