[WEB4LIB] Re: Choosing Web Editors

[Rachel MacDonald]

Personally, I prefer HomeSite--but then I use it basically as a fancy text
editor anyway.  I hate programs that won't let me control the exact markup,
and avoid wysiwyg programs such as frontpage for this very reason.  I like
the extras that HomeSite has, which are usually not available in programs
that are only text editors, such as:  color coding the html tags; having all
those handy buttons on the toolbar for tags which are used all the time;
letting you choose an html spec against which to validate your code, if you
so choose.  And I have never had any problem with it not supporting a tag I
wanted to use.  It will basically let you type in whatever you want, and
then you can choose to validate or not.

rachel
rmacdona at grcc.ctc.edu
Holman Library, GRCC
Auburn, WA 

-----Original Message-----
From: Darryl Friesen [mailto:Darryl.Friesen at usask.ca]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 9:19 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Choosing Web Editors


>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.

Not to mention proper placement.  There really ARE tags that only belong
inside the HEAD element!  Most editors don't seem to understand that, nor do
they produce anything resembling valid HTML (Microsoft's products being
among the worst I think).

> (Mostly by people who refuse to recognize the superiority of vi!)

Them's fightin' words!


- Darryl

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