Re: Mac/PC compatible editors

by Kayla Block <kblock(at)placeware.com>

Date:	Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:51:23 -0800
To:	Suzanne Ankerbrand <sankerbrand(at)villagelife.org>, hwg-software(at)hwg.org
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Homesite is guaranteed to not mess with anything...Dreamweaver is unlikely
to mess with anything, but any visual editing environment is at least
somewhat suspect. But some are definitely worse (incl FP) than others.

Kayla Block

At 11:28 AM 2/17/98 -0500, Suzanne Ankerbrand wrote:
>Hi,
>Had a question last week about a customer using FP to do quick updates. I
>designed the site using BBEdit and had heard warnings about FP destroying
>code. The warnings were correct.  Now I'm looking for another html editor
>to recommend to him.  I need something that will work well with by BBEdit
>pages which may be just any straight text-based editor. Any advice?
>
>After going thru the archives a bit, I'm thinking about Homesite, a
>straight text-based editor and maybe Dreamweaver which apparently is a
>wysiwyg editor that won't destroy  code. A wysiwyg would be nice but this
>client is more than willing and capable and learning basic html so it's not
>necessary. Especially it it's going to cause less headaches between my
>editor and his.

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