Re: HTML Editor

Raymond SCHMIT wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:34:52 -0400, Ed Mullen <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rick wrote:
array7@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jul 28, 2:32 pm, "Phonedude" <foned...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have been using Notepad to edit the website I've volunteered to create and
maintain --http://www.mclriverview.organd have finally got to the point
where I am looking for something a little more efficient to use. I see some
good things about Coffeecup, but was wondering what the experienced users of
this group use. Note that I am not yet interested in Java or scripting and
have been simply maintaining my CSS and HTML in notepad and for now that's
all I want to enhance.

Larry
I've been looking for one myself and unfortunately as soon as you
start going across platform and scripting (server-side) you quickly
run out of options.

I ended up being back to text editors.

Old Mozilla (pre-Firefox) had a fairly decent editor though, not 100%
WYSIWYG, but close. And you could always generate HTML that was
working in IE in it.
And you could also grab a page from the web and edit it without too
much overhead, like a billion folders etc.
SeaMonkey has a pretty good editor--Called composer

It produces crappy code. Even its successor, Nvu, still produces crappy code

There is no substitute for actually /learning/ HTML and CSS.

Do you think that http://kompozer.sourceforge.net/ will also produce
"crappy code" ?

Kompozer is built on the same code as Nvu and Mozilla Composer. So, yes.

Crappy is probably too strong a word. It's better than a lot of WYSIWYG editors but it is far from perfect. Again, actually knowing what you're doing is the best way.

--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
If an orange is orange, why isn't a lime called a green or a lemon called a yellow?
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