On Monday, July 5, 2004, at 08:49 PM, simon @ london web mill wrote:
Im a new boy to the discussion group. Pointed in this direction by Jeffery Zeldman's 'Designing with Web Standards'. I must say Web Standards has been a 'breathe of fresh air' for me. Its the way forward, for sure. What Im not so sure about is using a code generator eg. Dreamweaver. Ive always hand coded my HTML, javascript, ASP, SQL etc using a text editor (past 4 years). What do people think about hand coding versus code generators? What percentage of developers totally hand code, use both, use only code generators? regards Simon
BBEdit - worth it's weight in gold. Any text editor that can give you syntax colouring is an absolute must. I have and use DW as well, although MX2004 is new for me and I haven't tested it thoroughly yet. As yet, not convinced it can handle CSS layouts using floats correctly, but the jury's still out...
Generally, I trust WYSIWYG editors about as much as I trust IE6 to render my code correctly.
Nick ___________________________ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/
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