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Re: Trying Out Some New Web Editors--Advice Please
The purist point of view regarding WYSIWYG tends to be unrealistic in a production environment. Most people around here seem to be part-timers. This means that they probably don't do this stuff for a living - otherwise, WYSIWYG editors are good for giving your project a head start and, with some editors, are great for keeping your projects organized. Personally, I can't explain to my clients "look, I could have used a WYSIWYG editor to get most of this HTML done within an hour - but that is lame, so I took 5 hours to code it all by hand - here is your bill" ... that's not how it works. Plus, most of the time I'm just building a template that I will be running PHP through. Once you start coding with a real dynamic development language, one's passion for straight-coding HTML seems to wane. Sure did for me. I just don't have the time to spend on doing something a program can do for me - that's why I started developing PHP applications in the first place.
HTML is a fairly redundant language. It's not dynamic and is really straightforward (a common sense language) so most of the GOOD editors do a pretty good job. I always encourage people to learn the W3C standards regardless so they can scan through their generated code and modify it from there. I think that anybody who calls themselves a web site developer needs to know what they're looking at when it comes to their code, otherwise they're just a designer.
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