I installed
allaire's HomeSite 4.01 for JSP, One week later, I uninstalled my
FrontPage 98.-
Walter
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How have you liked HomeSite? I see that it has JSP tag
colorizing, but it's not really JSP aware yet. I am disappointed that
HomeSite is stuck in HTML-land, though. I feel like they are pandering
to the "old school" that says real web developers must use HTML and not a
WYSIWYG editor. But that's a tired argument of old thinkers, like the
people that thought you weren't a real programmer unless you wrote in
assembly.
Personally, web pages should be designed, not coded, and
WYSIWYGs are great for that. I also believe that you need to know HTML,
and there are many times when I have to tweak via HTML directly. But, I
do prefer to WYSIWYG editors -- just like using them to build GUIs -- it saves
a lot of time and gives you immediate feedback, and you can always tweak the
source when needed. I just bought HomeSite because of the poor support
from Symantec Visual Page (which REMOVEs JSP code because it thinks it knows
more about what I'm doing than I do), and now I'm wondering whether I really
need HomeSite -- I can use emacs for plain text editing -- and tag coloring
and completion is not that significant a benefit. Maybe I'm still
missing something...
David
