Also, it looks like some of the biggest weaknesses will be fixed in up coming releases.įor debugging I use Firefox with Firebug, Web Developer's Toolbar, and Tamper Data (for headers), for FTP I use Konqueror, and for testing in ies4linux. It's a little light in some areas, like CSS, but at least it doesn't get in my way. CSSed is OK, but not great, and it only really handles CSS. I've tried using TopStyle with Wine, but was disappointed. The ideal would probably be 80% TopStyle and 15% Homesite. What’s your favorite editor? Which software can’t you just live without when developing a fantastic web site?īack in my Windows days, I started with Homesite, which was great, and later TopStyle Pro, which was the best I've used to date.
It’s a simple yet extremely powerful editor, which supports a treasure chest of snippets (called bundles), which you can also tweak and adapt to your every need. My latest love, since about a year or so ago, is TextMate. Here, as well, it pretty much put the evolution of this tool to a halt. Not as stable as HomeSite (although it has/had great potential), it was originally created by Nick Bradbury but acquired by NewsGator in 2005. TopStyle is an editor for CSS editing, with some nice auto-completion, collapsible style rules etc. When I started using it, it was produced by a company called Allaire, which was then acquired by Macromedia back in 2001 (practically killing off the development of a great tool). It’s plain and simple, yet very flexible to adapt to your needs. I’ve used HomeSite since 1998 and most of the time I have been very content with it. It depends on what platform I work on, but these are my favorite editors (of which I strongly recommend all of them): On a PC Macromedia HomeSite It has to contain a wealth of keyboard shortcuts, that can be attached to the snippets, and it should also be extremely simple to link a piece of text and insert an image. I want tools that just help me to easily insert snippets for code I use all the time, and for closing HTML tags.
Therefore, I have always liked plain editors for writing code that is completely clean without any “smart” formatting added, code adapted etc. Personally, I’m not a big fan of IDEs because, most of the time, they contain way too many things that I don’t need, they become slow to work with, and in the worst cases, you don’t have a 100% control. Therefore, it’s always interesting to ask for someone’s favorite editor. I’ve been working with the web for almost 9 years now, and I’ve encountered a spectrum of web developers and their preferred tools during that time. What editor do you use? Published on Tuesday, April 24, 2007
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