Re: linux alternative to dreamweaver

Michael Trausch wrote:
Hallvard B wrote:
The popularity of Dreamweaver proofs that at least a lot of people like
it that way.

Not necessarily. I've used Dreamweaver a lot in the past, but I've
never used it for WYSIWYG design. When I used it at an old employer, I
found that I just used the neat features in it that allowed me to see
browser compatibility problems.

Would you have continued to use Dreamweaver at your employer's if you had the choice?

Note, however, that everything that DW gives you, you *can* do by hand.
And in many cases, when you're working on something that is XHTML
based, you're not going to want DW to spew that stuff at you, because
it's going to do it all over the place. That's what the W3C validators
are for.

Yup. My point exactly.

To do my work nowadays, I typically use emacs running on Linux or *BSD.
It's concise, does syntax highlighting, has the ability to integrate
with source code control systems such as CVS and Subversion, and works
quite well. You can even use it for things like the Smarty template
system and CSS and all of that, because there are different modes for
all of that.

That having been said, some people like vi just as fine for XHTML/PHP
editing. IIRC, it handles all of the syntax highlighting, too. And
there are a number of environments for both GNOME and KDE that can help
you to see things with syntax highlighting in your code.

Personally, I find that syntax highlighting, combined with a little bit
of common sense, can fix many mistakes that you would potentially
otherwise make. Of course, it doesn't fix all of them...

Syntax highlighting is the most useful tool a programmer can have, but I agree with you that it won't fix all problems. I still regularly fall foul of mistakes like missing the semicolon of the end of a line of PHP. Textpad doesn't tell me otherwise.

I use Textpad, as I'm not linux-savvy yet, and then use WinSCP to upload my scripts.

Marc
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