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- eraccusa, on 03/11/2009, -1/+19I see problems with the article.
Under the section about Amaya one sees this: "Unfortunately, technical issues are the program's downfall. Whether it's Ubuntu 8.10 or Amaya itself, we just couldn't do anything really meaningful, because it kept locking up our system, forcing us to resort to the power button and reboots." Reboots? Really? If your X is locking up on you then it is probably not Amaya at fault. Try Ctrl+Alt+Backspace before a reboot. Further, if you have more than one PC on a LAN you can probably use ssh to get into your box with the hung X to force X to restart instead of rebooting. Don't have ssh set up for remote access to your GNU/Linux box? Well, fix that right away! Rebooting is SO Microsoft.
I *use* Quanta Plus. Yet I see this and completely disagree: "Open Quanta Plus and it's quickly apparent that you really need to run it under its window manager of choice - KDE." No you do not! I use fluxbox under Quanta Plus and see no apparent reason to have to use Quanta Plus under bloated KDE *OR* bloated Gnome. Saying one must use it under KDE is quite incorrect.
The winner is Bluefish? Why? The reason given is weak on substance. Plus, the statement: "We were pretty up front from the start - we didn't expect to find any Dreamweaver killers among the crowd assembled here, and we weren't disappointed in this respect." Egad! What is the *reason* for this conclusion? I *found* my personal Dreamweaver killer with Quanta Plus. I never used any features of Dreamweaver that would stop me from using Quanta Plus instead. Actually, I don't even *know* of any Dreamweaver features that should keep someone else from using Quanta Plus. Maybe some of you Dreamweaver fanatics here on Digg can enlighten me. While I appreciate the author's effort to review some web editors for us I am not convinced the conclusions are correct.
Dugg anyway for effort. - seandfeeney, on 03/11/2009, -1/+14What? No Aptana? http://www.aptana.com/
- eraccusa, on 03/11/2009, -0/+12Unfortunately that is a common misconception. People honestly believe they do not have to learn anything about the underlying code to create good web pages. These are typically the people that purchase Dreamweaver because they think it makes them immune to having to learn. Any good site designer knows the tool used to create a web page is just a tool and is not a substitute for knowledge.
- nextekcarl, on 03/11/2009, -0/+10That's one of the best comments I've seen here on Digg.
I had a friend who consulted with a ad agency that usually just does paper based stuff. They wanted him to use flash to make a image change on mouse over. They didn't know any other way to do that. When he showed them the easy way, they then asked him to show them how to use Dreamweaver because they thought that would just 'do' everything for them. - evilxhwnd, on 03/11/2009, -0/+9they forgot eclipse and WTP: http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/
- nextekcarl, on 03/11/2009, -0/+6I just finshed reading the article, and I wonder how closely they looked at some of these programs. For example, they talk about Kompozer not being able to edit CSS natively, but I used Kompozer a while back and it can do this pretty nicely. The button on the far right side of the menu is called CaScadeS and it does just that.
- eraccusa, on 03/11/2009, -0/+6Heh, "fluxbox under Quanta Plus" should read "Quanta Plus under fluxbox". :)
- eraccusa, on 03/11/2009, -0/+6My impression is they opened up a file in a few editors, looked at the program interface and options, then wrote about it. I received no sense that these were in-depth reviews of these programs. To truly review seven web development applications would take a significant bit of time. Most web log users are not that dedicated to their articles. ;)
- MattBD, on 03/11/2009, -0/+5Kate is pretty good in KDE4 - now it supports Vim key bindings. But I still like Vim best as a general purpose editor.
- dannyfreeman, on 03/11/2009, -0/+4cssed is awesome for css development
http://cssed.sourceforge.net/ - JackpotCity, on 03/11/2009, -2/+6Always nice to have a handle on the options available when it comes to web editors for Linux. If you're a roll your own kind of HTML person then you could get by with Vi, but if not, read on.
- eraccusa, on 03/11/2009, -0/+4Epic Fail Comment! First you misspelled "Notepad++". Second it is a Win32 application which is not made for GNU/Linux: "Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL Licence. Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. ...". Even if it *has* been ported to run on GNU/Linux it is still originally made for Win32. Give me GNU/Linux first then port to Win32 and I am on your side. Otherwise ... not.
- Nicoon, on 03/12/2009, -0/+3I agree. Gedit serves my needs. Personally I use the Zenburn theme (converted from Vim).
- omnitrick, on 03/11/2009, -0/+3Komodo Edit: http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/
- OUPablo, on 03/11/2009, -3/+5What no mention of netbeans. Netbeans has some nice plugins such as plugins for PHP and Flex
- hansrodtang, on 03/11/2009, -1/+3Gedit rules ^^
I use the Darkmate color scheme, it fits all my visual needs :D - Joh739, on 03/11/2009, -1/+3Gedit with a few addons is the perfect program for me.
- evilgourmet, on 03/11/2009, -0/+1There are so many pages to go through, could you have linked to -- http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com ...
So that we could read it all at once? Thanks - slmx, on 03/11/2009, -5/+6FYI I did something similar a year or so ago, testing and rating nine text editors: Emacs, KVIM, Arachnophila, Bluefish, Komodo Edit, NEdit, Gedit, Kate, Quanta Plus.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com ... - voteme4pope, on 03/12/2009, -0/+1Scite is a god amongst text editors.
- jessehadden, on 03/11/2009, -0/+1Every time one of these lists comes out, I spend all day trying every single one.
By tomorrow, I'm back to jEdit, with a few plugins. - Haplo, on 03/11/2009, -1/+2XHTML? Just must be clueless. Most people who understand what XHTML is, try to avoid it.
- HonoredMule, on 03/11/2009, -2/+1I'm curious, but it would be nice to at least see some screenshots before committing to a thorough evaluation.
- mikedoth, on 03/11/2009, -3/+2Bluefish is good. Use Notepad++ on Windows though.
- boobsbr, on 03/11/2009, -4/+2tried bluefish and hated it. guess i'll stick to a syntax coloring text editor.
- SpoonMSU, on 03/11/2009, -8/+4What? No ___________?
- drewbeta, on 03/11/2009, -9/+1they're using HTML and not XHTML, therefore the entire article is discredited for me. Next!
- godsdead, on 03/11/2009, -9/+1Notepadd ++ FTW
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