What HTML Editor do you use?
by Megan, Sun, 2006-10-22 15:26
Dreamweaver
34% (33 votes)
Other WYSIWYG (please state)
4% (4 votes)
text-based HTML editor (HTML Kit, First Page, Homesite etc.)
8% (8 votes)
Code editor / Sophisticated text editor (Ultra Edit, Notetab light, Notepad ++ etc.)
37% (36 votes)
Basic text editor (notepad etc.)
16% (16 votes)
Total votes: 97
PopeCuervoLime posted this at 17:12 — 25th October 2006.
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NotePad FTW!!!
Busy posted this at 20:09 — 23rd October 2006.
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I use edit pad pro (lite = free, pro = paid).
I used edit pad lite for yonks and enjoyed it, mainly the search and replace etc, then last year I paid for the pro version and I love it, with syntac color coding, highlighted matching brackets, file type default, spell check, projects (enables you to save mutli files under one name and when reopened all files are reopened at where you left off). The only thing I don't like about the pro version (latest one) is the search function, has gone from easy to use to very complex and confusing, but still usable/workable.
The fact you can open 100's of files in it at the same time (with or without the projects) is great
timjpriebe posted this at 15:07 — 23rd October 2006.
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I use Dreamweaver for my WYSIWYG. On Windows at work, I use SciTE. On my Mac at home I use Textwrangler.
I never could stand to just use Notepad, myself. I like having color coding, highlighted matching brackets, etc.
Tim
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demonhale posted this at 00:36 — 23rd October 2006.
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Well I use Notepad2 and html-kit for cleanup, havent used a wysiwyg for more than a year now, Is it just me or somebody else experience css-day-dreaming? Its like when I think of what to put in a design, I immediately(not very fast though) know what css to use to achieve the look...
teammatt3 posted this at 19:15 — 22nd October 2006.
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Yeah, if you do $vi mydir it won't allow you to change the directory code, however, if you do $emacs mydir (I don't know if that's the right command, I've never used emacs) it allows you to see all this weird code, change it AND save it. By doing that, it corrupts the entire directory. So you can’t get to any of the files. Well, I guess it doesn't corrupt each individual file, but the directory the files are in, so you can't get to any files.
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 06:20 — 23rd October 2006.
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That's very weird (I have no idea what all that's about). Emacs does have a "dired mode", which you can manage directories and files with, but it doesn't give you any special rights above those your user already has. If you can screw something up with Emacs, you're well capable of screwing it up without Emacs.
I think maybe it doesn't corrupt the directory and block the files, but rather litters the directory with its annoying backup files. You can turn that off, of course.
Anyway, I'm straying from the thread topic.
Interesting to see no one has voted for Notepad/simple editor yet. I expected they'd be way more popular. It's still early, I guess.
demonhale, CSS day dreaming -- curious idea, never experienced quite that myself. Maybe Javascript daydreaming, however it's usually nothing feasible to implement.
teammatt3 posted this at 17:06 — 22nd October 2006.
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At home I use Dreamweaver. I love the file manager thing it has, it does FTP, and keeps everything synchronized on my computer and server. I use the split view most of the time. I use the code area most often, but I like seeing what the code does to the layout.
At school I have to use Vi, I'm enrolled in a Unix class, and the teacher makes us update his course website using it. We have access to Emacs too, but we’re not supposed to use it because you can open directories with it, and it can corrupt all the file in side the directory.
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 19:04 — 22nd October 2006.
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?!
Did he explain how or why?
andy206uk posted this at 16:03 — 22nd October 2006.
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I work on a Mac and although I have dreamweaver, I hate the clutter so use TextWrangler, which is the light free version of BBedit and is more than enough for me.
Andy
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 16:21 — 22nd October 2006.
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I've been using Emacs pretty much 90% of the time this year. Outside of Emacs, I use FireBug, plus the CSS editor (Web Dev) extensions for Firefox.
Lately I've not even been writing (X)HTML, for pages from scratch. Instead, I generate markup from another language that I find faster and more painless to edit. Not sure how it'll work out long-term yet.
Megan posted this at 15:32 — 22nd October 2006.
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My answers:
At work I primarily use Dreamweaver as a code/WYSIWYG editor. For simple text changes and stuff I like having the WYSIWYG option available. For more complicated coding I'll switch to code or split view. I always write all my CSS by hand, but I like having the auto-complete available. I think that with CSS the true expertise comes in knowing what elements to use and how, rather than specifically remembering what all the possible values are for every property.
I also use NoteTab ++ for simpler/fast code changes. This is great for quick jobs and especially when I'm editing my user css.
At home I just recently switched to linux and haven't gotten around to looking for a code editor yet. That will be fun! I've always been a fan of HTML editors - I used to try out most of what was available.
Megan
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123ecart posted this at 16:41 — 16th January 2008.
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I've used Aracnophilia since I began doing web design. I love it.
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