Re: about Frontpage - Dreamweaver's gorgeous!

Hi all. 

I've found Hotmetal to be one of the best as well, unfortunately, if I've
carefully hand coded some intricate table or something, it tends to screw
up my work. But if I start with Hotmetal and then do my handcoding outside
of it, I love it.

I've heard nothing but wonderful things about Dreamweaver, but in my
opinion, it has one fatal flaw: I find that switching between HTML and
WYSIWIG modes and saving all takes an EXTREMELY long time, whereas in
Notepad or other such text-only editors, the save and switch (to a browser)
is nearly instantaneous.

Anyone else noticed this?

tad

At 07:49 AM 2/10/98 -0700, you wrote:
>> I don't understand why Dreamweaver seems to be the only visual editor that
>> gets all the good press. IMO, HoTMetaL Pro 4.0 by SoftQuad is a much more
>> usable visual editor which is tightly integrated and generates clean, easy
>> to read source code that is automagically nicely indented.
>
>Kayla,
>
>I demo'd HotMetal Pro 4.0 recently and did not like it at all. 
>
>Instead of giving me <P> tags when ever I made a hard line break, it
>stacked two <BR> tags. 
>
>And it had a major fault in its create tables program (I'd ask for a
>table with 2 columns and 2 rows,
>and it would give one table of two columns and 2 rows, inside the top
>left-hand cell of
>another table of 2 columns 2 rows. I had to go into the code and
>actually fix more stuff
>that I do with FrontPage 98) These are some of the reasons why I decided
>not to purchage HotMetal Pro 4.0.
>
>(I'm currently demoing Dreamweaver, but my favorite editor for straight
>code editing is the 
>Agile HTML editor ... nothing WYSIWYG about it and it complies with the
>W3Cs HTML 4.0 reccomendation!)
>
>Just my $0.02
>
>Gabi
>



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