Comments on: Showdown: HTML Editors

By: Roy13

Roy13 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:06:07 +0000

Your summaries from the formative evaluation will include learners’ remarks, scores on pretests, embedded tests, post tests, your attitude questionnaire, and your debriefing notes. ,

By: Tonio Loewald

Tonio Loewald — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:56:06 +0000

You should mention the free version of BBEdit — TextWrangler — which does pretty much everything you’d want and is free (it also gives you a discount when you buy BBEdit, which — since it’s free — is also worth mentioning).

Also, you might mention Smultron. Also free, open source, very capable. Comparable to BBEdit and TextMate.

By: Sherb

Sherb — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:59:13 +0000

Textmate is the best.. but i still prefer making sites in Dreamweaver

By: David Aviv

David Aviv — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:34:57 +0000

Ahh thank you!

By: Niklas Nisen

Niklas Nisen — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:57:35 +0000

@David Aviv: Here you go: http://www.talacia.com/products.html

By: Alec Feld

Alec Feld — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:47:43 +0000

So you made five “installation” points to point out that xPad needs a license from the site.

Don’t you think thats overdoing it a bit?

I’m sorry, but you can’t really compare installations in OS X.

“The installation part of the review was to (basically) go over what you needed to do to start working with each editor.”

How to install an app in OS X is pretty much common knowledge and doesn’t need to be pointed out in an article.

By: David Aviv

David Aviv — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:16:26 +0000

@Rory: I looked at the website and I like that app too. I never realized how many great HTML editors there are out there! This makes my want to do a new showdown (Part Deux). Watch out for it in the future. Current apps that will be featured:

1) Smultron
2) TextEdit
3) BBEdit
4) skEdit

If there are any more, please comment here. I would also like a link to the HTML editor called “Tag” if anyone has it…I cannot seem to find it.

By: asher

asher — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:53:22 +0000

What about skedit? It’s a great lil app. for web editing.

By: Indraneel

Indraneel — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:26:12 +0000

I will never pay for a HTML editor.

By: Rory Francis

Rory Francis — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:18:02 +0000

You missed another great editor in SKEdit. It is a great editor and one low price get you a lifetime of updates.

Check it out here http://www.skti.org/skEdit.php

By: David Aviv

David Aviv — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:11:17 +0000

@Jon: I guess I didn’t do my research…expect to see a post about Smultron in the future…

By: David Aviv

David Aviv — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:08:51 +0000

Hmmm.

@All of you exept fcdoc: xPad was requested to be put in the showdown.

@Alec Feld: I realised xPad is not an HTML editor. Some web developers like to use an editor that doesn’t have HTML functionality. The installation part of the review was to (basically) go over what you needed to do to start working with each editor. As you can see, there were some parts that needed attention (RE: xPad).

There is a method to my madness!

By: Jon Kantro

Jon Kantro — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:05:50 +0000

How did you forget Smultron? Yet you included xPad, when Smultron is mainly for HTML editing.

By: Alec Feld

Alec Feld — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:40:02 +0000

Sorry, this is a poorly written article. You can’t really compare installations on OS X, as almost all basic app installs are drag and drop. You basically repeat yourself five times over.

xPad isn’t an HTML editor.

Your all caps and repeated exlamations for your verdict doesn’t work.

By: Andre

Andre — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:34:24 +0000

xPad isn’t really an HTML editor; it’s really only intended for basic text editing. I fail to see why it was included in the list.

By: fcodc

fcodc — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:47:25 +0000

TextMate forever!

By: Niklas Nisen

Niklas Nisen — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:31:42 +0000

xPad is not meant for HTML editing. Not even near.
I would have included Tag, instead of xPad.
Tag is such a great piece of software!