"My balls better than your ball"

I hate these arguements, When will people realise that the basketball good for basketball but not that great for football.

Dreamweaver has it's place in the design side of thing and I use it for that along with Photoshop but when it comes to php coding I use Homesites because I prefer it.

Each to their own but don't slate a product because some people can't use it or don't know how to turn off the auto correct features ;)

I'd still prefer doing Ctrl + S -> Alt + Tab -> F5 and using TextPad than Dreamweaver.:)

I agree 100%. It's a combination of knowledge and comfort.

You are right, Zach... my mistake. :)

All of this discussion makes me wanna check out Allaire Homesite - I use EmEditor as a weopon of choice, mainly cos I like climbing mountains with toothpicks and kitchen string :D

You're all amatuers

*chips zeros and ones into a big stone tablet*

:p

OMG!!! I can understand that people can become attached to their software preference (I am a BBEdit man myself, and nothing beats it :smoke: ), but steady on there.

Also, I would be a little cautious with the whole age bashing thing. I believe that if you are good enough you are old enough.

All major corporates have their own philosophy and "way" of doing things. Two equally successful companies may have radically different approaches and nether are wrong. It is just a case of finding what works best for you.

However I would add that I love aspects of dreamweaver, it has saved me a lot of time, and programs like contribute allow me to focus on important things rather than being bogged down with minor text updates. But beware of the WYSIWYG auto correct facilities. Just like the grammar check in a lot of typing programs like Microsoft Word? just because the computer tells you it is so doesn?t mean it is. Think with your head and not your software.

Do you have any idea how much easier it is to have DW automatically convert my <br>'s to <br /> if I set the doctype to XHTML 1.0 Strict?
On a Norwegian keyboard, the / key is either Shift+7 or above the NumPad 8, and < and > are one key just above the Windows key.
So its tons easier to just type '<br>' and then see them automatically converted to '<br />'.
Also I use the 'XHTML convert' function to make sure I remembered to end all <input>'s correctly, etc.

If this IYO makes me a shide coder, then I quite frankly don't give a furret's anus :p


Edit -> Preferences -> Code Rewriting
Either uncheck it all, or exclude .php and .php3 files from such rewriting
:)

No much more difficult than using notepad or any other text editor's replace feature ;)

Hah well see thats work to be done in the aftermath of the coding, ye?
And <br> to <br /> is just one of many examples. Dya think Notepad saves you time if you have to convert:
* <br> to <br />
* <input> to <input />
* <img> to <img alt="" />
et cetera
;)