Funny you should ask. HTML Drafting, if we go ahead and check around, is when you start making up some HTML and use only the most basic text editor to write all of the 'intense' markup language explicitly. That's what you will find out if you search the web trying to understand what 'HTML Drafting' means. Don't believe everything you read!
Shouldn't HTML Drafting be something visual? Something enjoyable? Something FUN!
Yes, of course it should. So, there is really no need to while-away all of your time typing all of the HTML code, in all of it's amazing detail, directly into a text editor. There are other ways to do it. What we really need to have is a strategy for Drafting HTML documents.
HTML is extremely visual. Everything that we write into the text editor becomes some sort of visual thing when it gets to the browser. The browser looks at the HTML code and then decides how it should be displayed. So, why don't we just go ahead and draw up most of our HTML directly inside of the browser to begin with? Wouldn't that be a lot easier than guessing each time?
Yes, that does sound easier! Doesn't it? So, let's just go ahead and always do it that way.
Good Call! That way we can just casually write up our own websites and all sorts of other HTML-based stuff.
HOLD ON... HOLD THE PHONE... IS THERE EVEN A PROGRAM THAT DOES IT THAT WAY?
Welcome to DCKIM.com, home of HTML Drafting.
Nothing else, not anywhere on the entire internet, is calling itself 'HTML Drafting'. That's because it basically doesn't exist.
So, 'Why is that the case?'.
I can only speculate that the reason for this conspicuous absent software is owing to the fact that it simply does not make any money. The only person who would be 'enriched' by such a software would be the user of the software. You know - Actual people.
With a world teaming with HTML and JavaScript experts, not one of them has yet to succeed in producing and advertising an HTML Drafting program for the masses. The ones I've seen, they just don't make the cut for me.
I needed something that was more hardcore than anything I had ever seen. Some kind of 1980s-era throw-back. Something that was hitting all the marks and checking all the boxes.
It needs to have the keyboard as #1, not just an after-thought. On the converse, it needs to be able to go Mouse-Only for everything... and that is well under-way now.
This project began slowly, as a foundation, with a selection of the most solid concepts holding it together at its core.
Just like with any building, if we start out with the best foundational choices, we can then build that out into something more interesting.
It needs to be universal, but it needs to be precise, and fun to use at the same time. I guess, maybe now you know what my conception of HTML drafting is.
It needs to be everything that HTML could possibly be. It needs to be completely visual, just like any other computer graphics program, and more important than anything:
IT NEEDS TO BE OPEN SOURCE AND IT NEEDS TO BE FREE TO USE FOREVER, TOTALLY OFFLINE, WITH NO EXTERNAL DEPENDENCIES, NO ADVERTISEMENTS, AND WORKING COMPLETELY INSIDE OF ANY WEB BROWSER.
That is the definition of HTML Drafting.
-dckimGUY
