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> -----Original Message----- > From: Marcelo Cantos [SMTP:marcelo@m...] > > > I really meant what I wrote. I'm assuming that most programmers will > not > > actually write in the markup language, but rather will use editors which > > produce markup as their output. If you think about it, that's what's > > already happening with tools like Access or Delphi (users work in an > > editor, and for the most part, don't touch the code), and of course > that's > > almost the only way anyone can deal with HTML anymore. > > This is not true. It is still extremely common for HTML authors to > code raw HTML in a text editor. In fact, if any degree of > sophistication is required of your web site, a high level HTML editor > will, more than likely, just get in the way. > > We gave up looking for a good HTML authoring environment because we > almost always found that it was easier just to knock it up in a text > editor. Moreover, any site that contains a large number of dynamic > pages will not benefit at all from an fancy editor. > > One word: Homesite. Makes a damn good syntax highlighting XML editor too. And with IE5 installed it's a quick click on the Browse button and you see your XML+CSS in all it's glory. For Joshua's information, he may be (or may not be) interested in Mozilla.org's XUL - it's an XML application building language that uses Javascript as it's programming language. Netscape 5's gui will be completely built using XUL - it's a very cool technology. However it doesn't go as far as to lower the scripting language to being XML itself - I think that's crazy, but each to his own. Matt. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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