Kayla Block wrote:
>
> This is why Homesite 3.x is not as good as Homesite 2.5x. Can't imagine why
> Allaire would think this is an improvement.
>
> Kayla
Have to agree. I mean, even if you were a geek about having alternating
green and white lines behind your code, and this could somehow be better
than line numbers (PERL tends to give me error messages that say "error
in line 145", not "error in the 72nd green line of the printout" :P ),
I still see two astoundingly obvious problems:
1. Most inkjet printers running in black and white mode ignore colors
that would leave this readable, negating any benefit. (And anyone who
prints draft code in color mode has too much money to blow.)
2. The only way to enhance readability is to reconfigure your browser
(for monospace type), and live with that for surfing (or change it back
and forth all the time).
This is what happens when you have too many programmers on a project,
and you run out of specs and busy work for the 50 you don't need before
the 20 useful ones get the main product done.
I really liked the idea that HS could allow me to bundle my perl scripts
and my code into the project (especially for global URL replacements
across the whole batch of files, or changing footers that are also
contained within PERL scripts). Printing readable code for debugging on
the train, though, is too important to give up. *sigh*
After visiting their beta site for 4.0 info, I think I'll go back to
HotDog:
1. New bulky visual design stuff requires integrating MSIE to system
with HS (ain't gonna happen).
2. Not a word about fixing this printing "feature"
3. They outright say that if you intend to run "other large programs"
when you run HS4 (like NS or MSIE?), they recommend upgrading to NT
because you're going to hit the Win95/98 resource limits (which I do
with 3.1 constantly--wondered what was going on to hang HS so often when
I've got 128 megs of ram in there. . .). Can't think of a single time
I've worked on a website when i didn't have netscape, an ftp program and
a mail program (with client's comments open for cutting and pasting)
open together, and usually PSP and a couple of telnet sessions are
running as well. If it requires that many resources, port it to Linux
for us already :P (I'm guessing the close integration of both HS and
CFusion to NT suggests my note begging them to port CF to Linux probably
hit the round file, too.)
I really liked HS for what it didn't do that HotDog has done--stupid
wysiwyg interfaces, crap that docks all over the screen, 8000 colors all
over the damn place that are more confusing than good ole black was,
etc. Now they're headed down that path, too.
Sad thing is, neither one of them ever got the basic editor 100% right
before they moved on . . . and all I wanted was a good notepad on
steroids.
Now, where's that HotDog 2.5 CD I got two years ago . . .
B
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