Ben Francis ben@franci5.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
Fair point, and yes Konquerer has the ability to copy to FTP and does it quite well. I just like the way Dreamweaver keeps a record of your "sites" and can check for broken links in files and check dependencies of files before uploading them. It can remember all the FTP details and automatically log in to a particular site with the click of a button and then its just a case of dragging and dropping. Perhaps I've been spoiled and should start doing things properly ;)
Perhaps these tasks are done by helper tools like sitecopy, or if they aren't, maybe you should suggest these features to developers of helper tools. Broken links is an interesting one: not strictly an HTML editor's job, not strictly a file mirrorer's job.
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Using a WYSIWYG editor [...]
It's not really WYSIWYG, though. DW, Mozilla and IE all display pages differently. IE even differs wildly between platforms! Maybe we're just after graphical editing? Talking about WYSIWYG web editors probably disguises what you want.
[...] Writing web pages in vi might make me feel clever but its not as fast as dragging, dropping and clicking - and if the graphical editor is producing pretty decent code then why shouldn't I?
Stylesheets mean that writing in a text editor can be pretty quick, at least if it's a good text editor for HTML, and I find it even faster than the drag/drop/click once the basics are set up. Setting up those basics is still a big pain, though.
The other assumption is that the editor produces pretty decent code and I think we've already covered that ;-)
Graphical editing of HTML is good, but so is graphical editing of lots of things. The jury is still out on the best ways...