Free Softare Magazine: Composer, A Potential HTML Based Word Processor

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 5, 2008

[ Thanks to steve
hill
for this link. ]

“Rosalyn Hunter writes about using Composer as a stand-in word
processor. I too, have used it in this fashion on OS X. I like it
for various reasons. For instance, I’m quite familiar with it, as
I’ve used it for website authoring numerous times. It creates HTML
files. I’ve come to the conclusion that HTML is not a bad
‘language’ to use for a word processor, considering that it already
allows for basic editing features–and then some. If it isn’t
obvious, Composer is an HTML editor that was part of the old
Mozilla suite.

“Although the suite development officially ended a while ago, a
resurrection project called SeaMonkey continues in its place, which
includes Composer…”


Complete Story

Related Story:
MozillaQuest:
Composer: The Netscape & Mozilla Graphical HTML Editor &
Word Processor
(Feb 25, 2001)

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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