Glad I've joined this group! Thank you all for your useful replies!
@ olbigtenor: ypu almost convinced met to overcome my 10 years-old fear of compiling... that long ago a good friend also persuaded me to start compiling...Long story short: I never succeeded. But I knew much less about Linux back then. I've bookmarked your link, that's a start..Writing html is easy, trust me... I even run a little website about it. I don't want to spam this forum, but if you're interested, let me know how I can send you a link to it.
@ Emil Axelsson: That looks like a very good solution. I installed the Firefox add-on , but could not yet get the background service running. The add-on told me to use "Guard livereload" for my OS, until LiveReload 2 becomes available for it. Did not get any further.
@ Lex Trotman,: yes "webhelper" was the name. Thank you also for the detailed background history.
That PR has bitrotted and nobody has updated it,
contributions are welcome.
I'm not so sure you would welcome my contribution ;)
@ Little Girl: Yes, it's indeed a glorious feature. I too discovered it not too long ago. But I stopped using it when I saw that each 'execute' forced a new browser tab to open, to display the latest version of your work. Or did you find a workaround for this?( 'execute' doing its work in the 1 opened browser tab? ) Thank You!
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Op zaterdag 23 juli 2022 om 12:42 schreef Bert Vercauteren via Users <users@lists.geany.org>:
Hi group,
Linux user here.. MXLinux.
I use Geany almost only as an html-editor.
I've been using an old version of Epiphany a.k.a. Web as the live preview, because it automatically updated each time a save was made in the source code in Geany. But it was not very stable and slowed down a lot. For the moment I use Firefox as the preview engine. It's okay, but there's no auto-refresh, so I have to hit the FF refresh button after each change.
In older Geany information there was talk about a Geany html plugin that had a html preview. That plugin seems to be removed.
I found an unofficial package on the web, downloaded it, but there the joy ended: It seemed to be source code, needing compiling, something that is far beyond my knowledge. It was called "webkit-preview" or something similar.
Hope I described my situation enough and hope to read how you experts have solved this.
Gratefully!
Bert