Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:50:19 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How important is "the OS?" Message-ID: <199806261550.IAA09816@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <000c01bda0af$ece39260$c72ff7c7@morrigan>
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>From: "Marcel Mason" <marcel@nunanet.com>
>Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 23:10:06 -0400
>a stick at. Unfortunately the same is not true for FreeBSD. As such,
>unless someone can point me in the direction of a decent HTML
>editor for *nix, I still need Win9x (horrors, I supose I could create &
>edit web pages in pico or vi }}}}}} shudder {{{{{ but I'd rather have
>a *nix version of Arachnophilia or Galts WebMaster Pro).
<Insert blank look here>
What, pray tell, is wrong with using a text editor to write programs?
Please recall that the final letter of "HTML" stands for "Language".
In practice, I find that have some (different) Web browsers pointed at a
page under construction on a Web server, and having a window open on the
page (or the CGI script that generates the page, or the data that the CGI
script reads to generate the page -- maybe multiple windows, one for each
source) works just fine. And it helps avoid the "well, it works with
*this* browser" syndrome. (Might also have a window open on a similar
set of page(-generation tool)s that already work, as an example,
too....)
It's simple; it's easy to use; I can see the results... and I can control
what happens.
Then again, I dislike driving an automobile with an automatic
transmission.... :-}
Each to his or her own, though,
david
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