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For regular HTML and XHTML pages (i.e. like those used by Facelets) it would be great if NB offered an "Open With..." type of option where you could register external WYSIWYG HTML editors, e.g. NVu: http://www.nvu.com/index.php or DreamWeaver and automatically edit those pages in a WYSIWYG environment (since Facelets supports this via component aliasing, i.e.the "jsfc" attribute"). Presumably, the developer would still spend most of the time in NB (due to code completion support, etc.), but presumably every now and then he would want to switch to a WYSIWYG editor just to work on the general layout of the page (especially when creating template pages for Facelets). Visual Studio.Net has a similar feature where you can define multiple programs (including external oens) with which you can open any type of file, with one being flagged as the default one when the user just clicks on a file. P.S. It would be also great (if possible) to split the Facelets editor into a "Preview" and "Source" view, so that they could view the page (if developed using component aliasing) in an embedded browser via JDIC (or at least offer a Preview toolbar item that would open an external browser window with a preview of the page, similar to what Matisse does for previewing forms and panels). P.S.S. Once the Visual Web Pack is integrated, adding an actual WYSIWYG editor for Facelets right into NB would be great too, but I realize this is a much bigger undertaking.
Just as a side note, being able to integrate an external HTML editor into NB would probably make it easier to develop in Tapestry as well, since all their pages are pure XHTML.