KompoZer to Blue Griffon?
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Rodney Mackay
Nov 5, 2013, 9:56:18 AM11/5/13
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Is it practical to migrate pages? I have been web-weaving since 1995 and have passed material from Pagemil (authored on Mac 8500) to NVu and KompoZer (on a Windows VAIO). Figuring that I had gone through a succession of bit numbers without trouble, I opened a version of KompoZer on a newer Mac running Lion and somehow managed to get 47,000 files (I cut out all matter posted before the year 2000) to move to the new machine.
The old Sony had blue-screened once too often and now has a clean install to the year 1995 (AOL and Netscape are the applications which were recreated). That took all day.
I managed migration of files through-trial-and-error and am not sure I could repeat the steps I took, but each required a lot of wasted time.
Should I start from scratch with Blue Griffon, or can I move at least some of those files from the two years just past? They will be HTM4. Can they be updated to HTML5?
To speed the plough, what is the simplest way of moving files forward?
The old Sony had blue-screened once too often and now has a clean install to the year 1995 (AOL and Netscape are the applications which were recreated). That took all day.
I managed migration of files through-trial-and-error and am not sure I could repeat the steps I took, but each required a lot of wasted time.
Should I start from scratch with Blue Griffon, or can I move at least some of those files from the two years just past? They will be HTM4. Can they be updated to HTML5?
To speed the plough, what is the simplest way of moving files forward?
Greg Chapman
Nov 13, 2013, 3:23:26 PM11/13/13
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Hi Rodney,
"Migration" doesn't come into it! Once your HTML files are accessible
on your new hardware you just open them in BlueGriffon and start
editing. Simple as that!
> Should I start from scratch with Blue Griffon, or can I move at
> least some of those files from the two years just past? They will be
> HTM4.
"Starting from scratch" sounds like a slight misunderstanding of what
you are dealing with...
BlueGriffon will happily load a file with an HTML4 doctype.
Slight warning: Like KompoZer, it will "correct" any invalid HTML4
code it finds and in extreme cases that can lead to disasters if the
code isn't valid HTML4.
Once loaded you can edit and save the file (as HTML4 because that's
what the doctype says).
> Can they be updated to HTML5?
There is no mechanism within BlueGriffon to edit a doctype line, so to
update your files to HTML5 you will need to edit the doctype line in a
text editor before loading it into BlueGriffon.
As with any file, BlueGriffon will then check the code for validity.
In my experience, with HTML4 STRICT files generated in KompoZer, the
change takes place without any issues. I don't recall trying to update
HTML4 LOOSE files to HTML5.
Greg Chapman
http://www.gregtutor.plus.com
Helping new users of KompoZer and The GIMP
Still exploring BlueGriffon
"Migration" doesn't come into it! Once your HTML files are accessible
on your new hardware you just open them in BlueGriffon and start
editing. Simple as that!
> Should I start from scratch with Blue Griffon, or can I move at
> least some of those files from the two years just past? They will be
> HTM4.
you are dealing with...
BlueGriffon will happily load a file with an HTML4 doctype.
Slight warning: Like KompoZer, it will "correct" any invalid HTML4
code it finds and in extreme cases that can lead to disasters if the
code isn't valid HTML4.
Once loaded you can edit and save the file (as HTML4 because that's
what the doctype says).
> Can they be updated to HTML5?
update your files to HTML5 you will need to edit the doctype line in a
text editor before loading it into BlueGriffon.
As with any file, BlueGriffon will then check the code for validity.
In my experience, with HTML4 STRICT files generated in KompoZer, the
change takes place without any issues. I don't recall trying to update
HTML4 LOOSE files to HTML5.
Greg Chapman
http://www.gregtutor.plus.com
Helping new users of KompoZer and The GIMP
Still exploring BlueGriffon
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