Looks nice, i really want a "wordpad but saves HTML files" program - i actually use an ancient version of Frontpage Express for that (which works just fine in Windows 10) which i used to make [0], [1], [2] and [3] (notice a pattern? :-P) but i'd like something a tiny bit more customizable and with slightly modern tech such as PNG image support :-P.
Sadly, this doesn't seem to be it... the UI is very clunky with weird glitches (e.g. right click on the titlebar doesn't show a menu and instead has some line appear), half of it uses subpixel antialiasing and half of it doesnt and doesn't follow any Windows desktop application conventions (no menu bar - yes i know some other programs do the same, i don't like them either) nor has any sort of way to customize the UI (like hiding the sidebar at the right or the gap with the ugly rectangles at the left that i'm not sure about - guess where a menu bar with a View menu would help :-P). Also some editing operations feel a bit off. I think it would improve massively with a native UI based on wxWidgets (or Qt, but Qt is more of an imitation of native widgets than the real deal) and using the HTML engine only in the editing area.
But FWIW what i like is
A) The idea - big props on that because i really want something like this but couldn't find anything that wasn't an absolute disgrace compared to Frontpage Express (e.g. i made this [4] vs [5] a couple of years ago - i exaggerate a little, but only a little :-P). I tried to make something similar, but made it overcomplicated and lost interest. Perhaps i'll try again at some point - after all i don't need all modern Web 3.1 features, just a tiny bit more than what Frontpage Express provides.
B) Pasting an image from clipboard actually works. I'm 60% over liking that it makes the image part of the HTML file as embedded data and 40% over not liking it because it bloats the HTML file unnecessarily... but i think that it is more convenient this way (and you can drop the html file to something like mixtape.moe which allows sharing raw html files).
First of all, FrontPage is a web-page-editor and html-notepad is not. It means that html-notepad can be used to edit textual content/fragments of web pages, but not the whole page. That's simply impossible. And that's why web-page-editors, as a class, have gone all together. "Sic transit gloria mundi" to them.
The only reasonable way of composing pages by pure WYSIWYG means are wizards or page-blocks-composers - something close to mechanism that WordPress is using.
"the gap with the ugly rectangles at the left that i'm not sure about"
Those rectangles play several roles:
a) to visualize hierarchical structure. This helps a lot. At least to predict what hit on ENTER will do.
b) they allow to select elements as a whole. In browsers with that "contenteditable" rudimental thing you cannot select whole element:
<p>|Foo bar|</p>
versus
|<p>Foo bar</p>|
(where `|` marks start/end selection positions)
c) they will serve role of drag handles to be able to reorganize structure interactively.
As of UI configurability... it will be there.
As of wxWidgets, etc. - I see no reason for that. Neither of popular editors use standard (quite limited) OS widget sets. MS Office, Adobe, Sublime and so on as examples.
Sadly, this doesn't seem to be it... the UI is very clunky with weird glitches (e.g. right click on the titlebar doesn't show a menu and instead has some line appear), half of it uses subpixel antialiasing and half of it doesnt and doesn't follow any Windows desktop application conventions (no menu bar - yes i know some other programs do the same, i don't like them either) nor has any sort of way to customize the UI (like hiding the sidebar at the right or the gap with the ugly rectangles at the left that i'm not sure about - guess where a menu bar with a View menu would help :-P). Also some editing operations feel a bit off. I think it would improve massively with a native UI based on wxWidgets (or Qt, but Qt is more of an imitation of native widgets than the real deal) and using the HTML engine only in the editing area.
But FWIW what i like is
A) The idea - big props on that because i really want something like this but couldn't find anything that wasn't an absolute disgrace compared to Frontpage Express (e.g. i made this [4] vs [5] a couple of years ago - i exaggerate a little, but only a little :-P). I tried to make something similar, but made it overcomplicated and lost interest. Perhaps i'll try again at some point - after all i don't need all modern Web 3.1 features, just a tiny bit more than what Frontpage Express provides.
B) Pasting an image from clipboard actually works. I'm 60% over liking that it makes the image part of the HTML file as embedded data and 40% over not liking it because it bloats the HTML file unnecessarily... but i think that it is more convenient this way (and you can drop the html file to something like mixtape.moe which allows sharing raw html files).
[0] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/gopher/
[1] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/liteproc/
[2] http://runtimeterror.com/tech/jtf/
[3] http://runtimeterror.com/tech/webserver/
[4] https://i.imgur.com/ZPvaiP6.png
[5] https://i.imgur.com/12iiEWb.png