Re: [WSG] Web Editor?

[Ryan Christie]

Dreamweaver currently produces the cleanest and most valid code, and is one of the most polished WYSIWYG editors out there. Zeld's cronies worked with Macromedia to bring the program up to date with handling standards. It does the job pretty well. I don't use the visual design view all too often when using the program because writing my own code out by hand is easier. Dreamweaver color codes basically everything you enter, and in the newest MX2004 version, is also able to be set to catch code that will not be compatible with specified browsers. So, if you're designing for MS IE 4.0 clients, Dreamweaver will underline code not recognized by that browser in red squiggly like MS Word would do with bad spelling. All in all, an excellent tool, even for those who aren't going to use DW for its WYSIWYG qualities. The program also accepts expansion plugins as do all Macromedia dev programs that will add new features or update currently existing features.

The only downside is the pricetag. Like was mentioned earlier though, you get what you pay for.

Adobe's latest version of Pagemill is supposed to be decent as well, but after working with it in the past I gave it up for Windows Notepad.Pagemill is expensive and really not worth it in my opinion. When I'm on a mac, I use BBEdit unless it has DW installed :)

I use KDE's Bluefish editor when I'm on Linux.

--Ryan
http://www.theward.net

Taco Fleur wrote:

What Web Editor out there produces the cleanest and most valid code?

- Editor that is embedded in IE (seen it, produces really nasty markup)
- Editor that is embedded in Netscape (no exprience)
- Ektron (used it many years ago, was pretty happy with it)
- .....
- Etc.

And which one works in most of the browsers?

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