If iweb was recreated as a hosted site builder application?

Any functionality would be a good start.

 

Just as good as the app, free and the ability to install it on my own linux based server.

 

Well obviously iWeb would have to lose a lot of functionality to work in that way, or if nothing else, have to work in a different way.

Right now, as much as I dislike iWeb, I think it's better off being left as it is.

What would be nice though, would be built in FTP support to allow people to upload their sites to cheaper hosts than MobileMe, without having to do it manually. But saying that, there's a lot of stuff I think should be added, and I probably say that because I'm not the kind of user that would ever use iWeb anyway, but I'm still pretty sure there's people out there who would like to see built in FTP support.

Would be damn nice. Saying that, if you planned to offer the functionality to users, I dread to think what kind of licensing fees Apple would charge.

 

Technology has not evolved far enough for you to be able to make iWeb online.

 

I always chuckle when I see iWeb mentioned in a "Development" forum.

 

Have you seen Adobe's ROME? Its a mashup of Flash, Photoshop, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver. It runs in a browser (or on the desktop), is WYSIWYG, and is only about 20K lines of action-script code.

You can find some demos of it that were shown at MAX 2009. here is one of them:

http://www.kahunaburger.com/2009/10/27/adobe-rome-sneak-peek-at-max/

This video does not cover web page layout (with templates like iweb).. but its one of the components of the app.

oh, and ROME supports built-in FTP to whatever site you choose.