WebWriter/2 v1.2 - Don't write Home without it!
WebWriter/2 v1.2a patch now available.

    * About WebWriter/2
    * WebWriter/2 Features
    * Download WebWriter/2
    * HTML References 

About WebWriter/2

WebWriter/2 is an HTML editor which provides drag & drop integration with the OS/2 Workplace Shell as well as seamless integration with the IBM WebExplorer & Netscape Navigator for previewing documents. WebWriter/2's powerful and intuitive interface simplifies development of HTML documents and can be customized to the user's preferences. The multi-threaded design of WebWriter/2 allows you to open and edit multiple HTML documents simultaneously.
Full support is provided for HTML 3.2 elements and the ISO-Latin-1 character set as well as a user defined tag capability allowing you to add new tags as they are introduced or to create your own customized elements. Version 1.1 also supports many new extensions to the HTML specification such as Tables, Backgrounds, and WebExplorer icon animations.


WebWriter/2 Features

    * Drag & drop files to open them or insert them into another document.
    * Drag & drop linking of documents and WebExplorer URL's.
    * Drag & drop inlining of images.
    * Seamless preview of documents with WebExplorer & Netscape Navigator.
    * User configurable pop-up menus.
    * Table generator & Table assistant to simplify creation of HTML tables.
    * Drag & drop selection, from OS/2 color palettes of background and text colors.
    * Attributes menu allows easy modification of already inserted tags.
    * Optional prompting of tags allows you to bypass dialogs and work faster.
    * Open & edit multiple documents simultaneously
    * WebWriter/2 window manager to manage your open documents
    * Online context sensitive OS/2 help
    * Prompting for complex tags makes HTML coding easy
    * Full featured search & replace capabilities
    * Configure multiple preview applications or select one on the fly
    * Quick preview by dragging to WebExplorer
    * View HTML source by dragging from WebExplorer
    * Character manager for full ISO-Latin-1 character entity support
    * Accelerator keys for easy conversion of letters to non-English character entities
    * Accelerator keys for commonly used tags (<P></P>, <UL></UL>, <LI>, <HR>, etc.)
    * Tag manager for user defined tags & quick access to tags
    * Tag manager can be configured to display only the tags you want to use
    * Drag & drop tagging from Tag manager
    * Drag & drop copy and paste between WebWriter/2 windows
    * Drag & drop files to and from the OS/2 Desktop
    * Printing of HTML documents
    * Rename or delete documents from WebWriter/2
    * Customize edit window fonts and colors
    * Ability to set default document paths
    * A default document template may be specified to simplify creation of new documents 


Download WebWriter/2

WebWriter/2 is distributed as Freeware, so feel free to download it and give it a try.

WebWriter/2 v1.2 is implemented in VX-REXX and requires the 2.1C version of the VX-REXX runtime library (vrobj.dll) to run. If you don't already have this version of the runtime library you should download the WebWriter/2 archive which includes it. If you do already have it, you can save yourself some time by downloading the archive which does not include it.

    * Download the WebWriter/2 v1.2a patch (544K) -- This patch fixes a problem with HTML previews using recent versions of Netscape Navigator. If you already have WebWriter/2, you can simply download the patch, unzip it and copy it over your existing WebWrite.exe file. If you don't have WebWriter/2, you'll need to download one of choices below and install it before installing the patch

    * Download WebWriter/2 v1.2 with vrobj.dll (1080K).

    * Download WebWriter/2 v1.2 w/o vrobj.dll (686K) -- NOTE: The preview release of v1.2 used v2.1D of vrobj.dll. If you are using this version, I recommend that you switch back to the 2.1C version of vrobj.dll included in the full download.

    * Download the WebWriter/2 v1.2 help file in .inf format (51K).

    * Image sizer (12K) -- This is a free utility that will calculate sizes for GIF & JPEG images. To install it, simply create a program object for it on your desktop (you can put the executable in the WW/2 directory). To use it, simply drop an image file on the program object and it will display the height and width. Once it is running, you can drop an image file anywhere on the Image sizer window and it will calculate the dimensions. 


HTML References

If you're looking for a good HTML 3.2 reference, you won't do better than the Web Design Group's Wilbur reference. You may also wish to visit the W3 Consortium and check out the HyperText Markup Language (HTML): Working and Background Materials page or the HTML 3.2 Reference Specification.

There are also versions of the Web Design Group's reference which are designed for offline reading. They have various formats available on their site and the following 2 formats are available here:

    * HTML 3.2 reference in Adobe Acrobat format. (417K)

    * HTML 3.2 reference in OS/2 .INF format. (69K) 


WebWriter/2 is no longer an active project. I'm currently working on Palm OS and Network projects for Standard Coffee an office coffee service company.

This document was created using WebWriter/2

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