At 11:02 AM 4/19/2003 -0700, Wayne Shumaker wrote:
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>>So, what do people use to edit their web pages with?
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A combination of UltraEdit 9.1x, Hot Dog Professional 6.6 and (my newest)
CoffeeCup HTML Editor 9.5. All three are quite competent, although the
latter two are more like IDEs (integrated development environments) for
HTML etc. None of them produce anything else but lean, mean, browsin'
machine HTML.
Hot Dog is quite powerful, and I'm otherwise very fond of it, but it
suffers from an annoying bug that no one at Sausage Software seems to be
able to hunt down and stomp with extreme prejudice, i.e., the dreaded "text
insertion freeze-up." It seems to occur almost randomly, and at its worst
can blow away an editing session, losing all your changes. Their FAQ
blames this on wonky video drivers, but I've used Hot Dog on at least a
dozen different PCs with a variety of video cards, and this behaviour has
raised its ugly head on every PC, so I'm thinkin' they're just not trying
hard enough.
My most recent acquisition is the CoffeeCup editor. It's much like Hot Dog
but without the above-mentioned bug, and has a library of Javascript, DHTML
and other script languages snippets that can be inserted into your code to
do various and sundry things. (You still need a *basic* understanding of
the script languages, though -- it's not for a total newbie.) It's also
quite a bit cheaper than Hot Dog Pro, and you get free updates for life
(unlike either of the other two programs). UltraEdit has also become my
complete replacement for Notepad/Wordpad.
Their Web locations:
UltraEdit: http://www.ultraedit.com
Hot Dog Pro: http://www.sausage.com
CoffeeCup HTML: http://www.coffeecup.com/
These are all just for PCs, however -- I have no experience with
Apple-compatible software for HTML editing. Sorry.
Garth
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