Re: Irritating (somewhat OT)

At 01:44 PM 21/06/00 -0400, you wrote:


>If you are going to use a WYSIWYG editor Homesite is one of your best=
 choices.
>FrontPage has a tendency to populate proprietary code in certain instances.=
  I
>usually develop pages with a WYSIWYG to save time, but will use NotePad=20
>for the
>final tuning.

HomeSite is NOT a WYSIWYG editor and never has been.  Allaire has added the=
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horrid "Design View" module in response to some users requests but it's an=
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OCX module made by Microsoft... use at your own risk.  I've had it disabled=
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and out of the way from the day it was introduced.  When I want WYSIWYG I=20
go to Dreamweaver.

HomeSite is (IMO and the opinions of many pros) the best code editor out=20
there bar none.  Someone mentioned the fact that some free HomeSite clones=
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exist, namely 1st Page 2000.  1st Page lacks numerous features that make=20
HomeSite a great editor like right clicking on any tag to get a tag editor,=
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server mappings which enables developers to test their pages on a local=20
server like PWS in the HS built in browser or in IE or NS internally and=20
many more.  Sometimes you get what you pay for and HomeSite packs a lot of=
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features for a very reasonable price.  No other editor I've seen enable as=
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much customization as HomeSite through things like Action Scripting and=20
VTML with which users can create their own tag editors.

It should be mentioned that some users do experience problems=20
with  versions 4.5 and 4.5.1 but they have been the most stable since=20
version 2.5a for me.  YMMV. I myself wouldn't work with anything else.

St=E9phane Bergeron

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