Re: Mac/PC compatible editors

by Tom Oster <toster(at)bcm.tmc.edu>

Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 1998 14:50:55 -0600
To:	Suzanne Ankerbrand <sankerbrand(at)villagelife.org>
Cc:	hwg-software(at)hwg.org
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Suzanne Ankerbrand <sankerbrand(at)villagelife.org> wrote regarding
cross-platform editors for updates:
>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.

I've noticed that Dreamweaver does *alter* code from BBEdit. It also
*fixes* problems with closing tags, etc. So far this hasn't been a problem.
The only major problem I've found is that some JPEG images have been
hopelessly messed up. Thank heavens I had archived the originals first.

All in all, I like Dreamweaver. It might work well as a cross-platform
editor if all pages were originally created in Dreamweaver.

I don't know Homesite. If it's strictly text-based, it may do the job. If
you use it, you might want to try to turn off any built-in HTML code
verification/correction in the program.

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