From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 29 19:14:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02813 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:14:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from natsiq.nunanet.com (root@natsiq.nunanet.com [199.247.47.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA02729 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:14:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@nunanet.com) Received: from morrigan (ppp-195.nunanet.com [199.247.47.195]) by natsiq.nunanet.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA24028 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:08:15 -0400 Message-ID: <000301bda3cc$6af774e0$c32ff7c7@morrigan> From: "Marcel Mason" To: Subject: Re: How important is "the OS?" Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:08:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >On 26-Jun-98 David Wolfskill wrote: > >> >> >> What, pray tell, is wrong with using a text editor to write programs? >> >> Please recall that the final letter of "HTML" stands for "Language". > >I agree with you 99% here David... I *almost* always do my web pages entirely >by hand. However, it DOES make it difficult to create very complex pages >with complicated layouts, especially with a lot of frames, forms and tables. A >wysiwyg editor can help under those circumstances, and you can always edit the >final output by hand. Generally if I'm designing a very complex web >page/series of pages (which is almost never, since I hate complex web pages :-) >I'll resort to some kind of web designer program to assist in the initial >stages. Absolutely *nothing* wrong with using a text editor for making web pages, it's a bit slow but it's do-able fer sure. The point of the original statement was that I think it would be nice if there was something between notepad and FrontPage for the unix world. In the Win95 environmenet I use Arachnophilia which either allow me to type in tags by hand or highlight a chunk of text and tell the prog what I want done with it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message