They have similar toolbars with similar tools. They have a big blank page to start with – the empty text canvas. The first thing to recognise is that word processors and HTML editors actually look and work in kinda the same way. What would we win and what would we lose?
odt and all those other over-burdened word processing formats. What if we could allow ourselves to imagine we used an HTML editor for all our word processing needs and HTML replaced.
HTML editors are for creating…well, …HTML. So, I think it might be interesting to ask just this simple question – what if we used desktop HTML editors instead of word processors to do word processing? It might sound like an irrational proposition… word processors are, after all, created for word processing. However, most of us just accept that this is the way it is and we try not to bother ourselves by noticing just how awful this software actually is. We also know that they are slow, unwieldy and have lots of quirky ways of doing things. They are one of the core apps in any user’s operating system. Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, whatever you like – we know them. We use all over-complicated software to create desktop documents. Making a case for HTML editors as stealth desktop word processors… the strategy has been so stealthy that not even the developers realised what they were building. Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.
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