[WEB4LIB] Re: Choosing Web Editors

[Thomas Dowling]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darryl Friesen" <Darryl.Friesen at usask.ca>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 11:24 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Choosing Web Editors


> > What is your recommendation: HomeSite, GoLive or another?  And why?
>
>
> All hail Pico!  King of Editors!  Well, it's easy at least.  And all the
> tags are there.  :)
>

I'll put in another vote for a good old text editor.  It keeps you
intimately familiar with what exactly your web site is serving up, it
gives you a maximum degree of control over markup, and you don't have to
wait for an upgrade to add support for a given element, non-HTML files
like stylesheets or JavaScript source files, etc.

The large commercial editors have succeeded primarily by convincing people
in advance that HTML is too hard to learn.  If you're anything more than a
very casual HTML writer, you're going to want to know the markup anyway,
so you might as well work with it directly.

Now, any discussion of *which* text editor is best usually devolves into
scratching, hair pulling, and comments about each other's parentage.
(Mostly by people who refuse to recognize the superiority of vi!)

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu