Do you use a WYSIWYG editor!

leatherback

Hi,

Out of curiousity, Who are using WYSIWYG editors.. If so.. Which ones?

I personally do not use them. i use a java editor, JEXT I also have Coffeecup, but use that mainly for picking colors, and making big complicated forms..

LordShryku

Not me....
I use vi on linux and notepad on Windows

planetsim

EditPlus although i only call it an editor.

Moonglobe

PSPad for me 🙂 i can't stand WYSIWYG progs...

drawmack

I use front page to make large static tables, it's much easier and faster but other then that it's hand coding and will be until someone makes an xhtml compliant visual editor that does stylesheets correctly and is cross platform friendly.

jasonmills58

Unfortunately, I'm kind of stuck, and Dreamweaver IS my best friend right now. This is mainly because I came to web design from a database background, so needing to learn PHP was enough, I decided to let DW do the HTML grunt work for me. But as it turns out, all i really like are the automated ftp functions in it. Most of the other stuff just gets in the way. Can anybody recommend a PHP editor that manages ftp updating fluidly?

cheers!
Jason

[edited after noticing the bar graph] eek! sorry for throwing off the demographic... :rolleyes:

piersk

DW definately. Although I have tinkered with Zend studio, too.

njm

Another vote for DW (MX). Why?

source code formatting
autocomplete/tooltips for function parameters & superglobals
Site map and FTP integration

although for raw HTML I tend to code by hand rather than use the DW tools.

njm

bubblenut

piersk

Originally posted by njm
although for raw HTML I tend to code by hand rather than use the DW tools.

I completely agree. It's also nice to have a tool that does both ASP and PHP (both of which I use at work)

njm

Originally posted by piersk
I completely agree. It's also nice to have a tool that does both ASP and PHP (both of which I use at work)

Perhaps if I bothered to actually learn all the DW HTML tools, I might use them more 🙂 It's probably my (bad) coding sytle, but I tend to mix up PHP and HTML a lot in most of my pages, rather than keep them separate, so hand-coding's easier.

njm

Elizabeth

Dreamweaver MX 2004/Edit Plus for moi.

goldbug

UltraEdit/Quanta/JEdit for me (depends on platform/OS, obviously)

WYS is rarely WYG.

bad76

DW and Textpad, please...

DW is not so bad, but I've to tell I look the code each time I insert a visual object... And my rigth-shift is going down by inserting <br> instead of poor <p>.

However just to modify the "look" of the page it's enough "WYG".

...I'm forgivening the table view constantly on "standard view"...

Elizabeth

Originally posted by goldbug
WYS is rarely WYG.

Heh, kind of like most things in life 🙂

jasonmills58

well this is nice, now I don't feel like THAT much of a poser for using DW... 😃

piersk

No one can say that you are a bad developer (or a poser) just cos you use a WYSIWYG editor.

LordShryku

<blatant attempt to prove piersk wrong>
you are a bad developer (or a poser) just cos you use a WYSIWYG editor.
</blatant attempt to prove piersk wrong>
hehehehehe 😃

stolzyboy

I use a color coded HTML editor, but it is all done by hand, NO WYSIWYG for me...

Oh, I use HomeSite btw...

AstroTeg

Edit+ over here and Pico in emergencies ("VI should stand for Virtually Impossible", my dad would say - I haven't had any huge urge to learn it).

Edit+ has some tools for the novice coder and some flexibility for the advanced coder (and because of both, I've really liked using it). So far I've converted 3 web dev shops over to Edit+ (first one was on Frontpage, 2nd one was using the IDE for Visual C++ to code HTML and ASP, and the third was using VI and Notepad).

So far I've done Java, Assembler, C/C++, PHP, Perl, and ASP from within Edit+. Even had Edit+ compiling Java, assembling Assembler, and bouncing SQL queries against MS SQL and having the results pop back in Edit+).

Of course, it all boils down to using the right tool for the right job. I've played with DW before (version 3) and it completely and totally turned me off to WYSIWYG editors. But if you're able to produce with the tool, then by all means, keep using it!