[WEB4LIB] Re: Choosing Web Editors

[Dale Askey]

It appears we all have very divergent opinions on the best way to 
skin the HTML cat. While not wishing to step on anyone's toes, I 
must confess that several years ago I stopped seeing the virtue in 
exercising total control over my HTML that a text editor allows. 
Browsers are so error-tolerant and are likely to stay that way for a 
good, long while. Also, with the various validators out there, I can 
clean up pages generated in WYSIWYG editors in a few minutes. At 
work I use Dreamweaver, while at home I use the much-maligned--
and rightfully so, frankly--FrontPig, and while I prefer 
Dreamweaver, both programs have so many cool features--link 
checking, global spell checking, file location management--that save 
me loads of time that I would never consider going back to a text 
editor. Granted, I spend much of my time in both programs viewing 
code and editing it by hand, anyway, but I'm addicted to those other 
features, and for good reason.

My two cents.

Dale
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