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Besides the structural HTML editor that already exists, it would be great to have a WYSIWYG (X)HTML editor. This editor could help in quickly designing (X)HTML documents from within Eclipse. The WYSIWYG HTML editing component could also be used in Rich Client applications that are Eclipse-based and thus would benefit a broad user base. There exists a WYSIWYG editing feature (work still in progress) in the GEF subproject (http://www.eclipse.org/gef/team/wysiwyg.html?cvsroot=Tools_Project) that could be used as a basis here.
This is a great idea. I know many are investigating, implementing similar as WTP "add ons". In addition the GEF example you site would be a good integrated example, if someone from community wanted to work on that.
as professional web designer/developer I must ask: how it can be done so output result will look identically in all major browsers? I'ts so difficult that we can end up in basic composer-like editor for HTML-dummy programmers. So I don't think that wtp need that mess right now, but it can be provided by some other project.
*** Bug 109946 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Agree with Eugene in that it's not a good idea to build a full fledged WYSIWYG HTML editor and to make it output professional level HTML. Sooner or later somebody will have to make a plugin out of a great editor out there. The AJAX wave is pressing for such. And in the meanwhile it will have to be an XHTML editor, without quirks. But it yes can be interesting to have a casual HTML editor for simple tasks, like for example to provide context for a new javascript piece, or seeing a class' javadoc. I'd be happy with a 2-pane editor: in one of them I write crude HTML and in the other what I see is what I get. Instead of having to switch from source to browser view. This is already almost done.
Also I'd suggest to implement a special outline view that displays the current document node on a line (like the line that's underneath the Dreamweaver editor), and allow decorators to the nodes. This would allow quick application of styles, id's, opening a quick edit of the node etc.
I'm going to mark this as fixed, since there is now a wysiwyg editor in WTP. It is specialized towards JSPs and JSF tag rendering, and only does basic thinks with HTML and CSS ... but, think its best to close this bug, and then users can open more specific bugs on that current editor.
