On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:27:07PM +0300 or thereabouts, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:14:47PM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: > > Drifting away from Linux Visual Editors... > > > > FrontPage 2003 is vastly superior to anything prior, in the FPage line. I'm > > definitely not a MSFT lover, but FP is closing the gap fast to DWMX. If I was > > doing any .NET web applications, I'd be using FrontPage 2003 before DWMX. > > > > The main problem with FrontPage and DWMX is that they tend to be very > incompatible with anything other then explorer, especially when using > dhtml and css, but also some features with regular html. I don't agree with this, (sorry). One could say that about FrontPage in the past, not really Dreamweaver, (in recent times). Modern HTML visual editors/IDEs like Dreamweaver/FPage, excel at standards compliant XHTML, HTML/DHTML (DHTML is bloated, but that's so the Javascript works in *all* browsers). It's always going to be faster to use an IDE to manage large complex sites, in workgroups, than it is going to be writing your own HTML in a text editor, and letting others use their own favourite editors, within the same "group". That's where Dreamweaver/FrontPage show their advantages -- Rapid Deployment in an integrated environment. I'm not knocking those using Vi, Vi(m) or Emacs, they're probably experts at writing raw HTML. However, I have my doubts, that way, works in an efficient standardized workflow, within a workgroup, where others are using Visual IDE's -- In fact I know it wouldn't, as we've tried it. It would be nice to see NVU or any GNU web dev app, evolve into something as promising. For doing PHP, I simply love ZendStudio, but for doing the visual part of the page, I prefer Dreamweaver over anything -- simply because it's faster for "yours truly" to churn out pages in an efficient manner. -- Steve +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Wednesday Jun 09 2004 11:36:01 AM EDT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Used staples are good with SOY SAUCE!
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