Talk:Editor

More advanced editors?
I'm surprised to not see any mention of more advanced text editors than Notepad. I would expect to see references to Vim, Emacs, Notepad++, gedit, and the like, which as mentioned provide many features that make editing HTML easier and/or more efficient.

--Fritzophrenic 16:03, January 13, 2011 (UTC)


 * Is there some reason why you have not edited the page yourself to include this information? --Yoshord 20:12, January 18, 2011 (UTC)


 * I've got to admit, the article as it stands isn't structured well. I wouldn't know where to insert that information either, without a rewrite. --Jesdisciple (talk) 00:55, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Resources
I've been researching this because I felt there had to be a way to style a page directly in the browser, WYSIWYG-style. (Don't lose faith in my stubborn best-practices position yet; just a second.) I found a lot of interesting things that I wasn't looking for...
 * Zen Coding
 * Kodingen, a cloud-based editor, project manager, and host
 * Selenium IDE, I made an empty Firefox profile to try it out on
 * Web-development extension collections, a list that I compiled during my search
 * Cloud9 IDE, I'd already heard of this but I just now registered
 * JSApp.US, I didn't find this today, but it was in my bookmarks =)
 * Aptana, found that long time ago too
 * Erbix, yeah, another I've known of for some time

...and some intriguing rambling that isn't really useful in the end...
 * Programming In Wiki
 * Code is data, and data is code

...and finally!, here's what I wanted:
 * Browser Turns Editor

Now I've given this a bit of thought, and I don't think a WYSIWYG will work well for editing HTML because the semantics would be difficult to code for; the editor might end up so flexible as to be confusing or just useless. But typing semantic HTML and then designing CSS WYSIWYG-style in the browser (where the representation is accurate) might work well, given that the traditional drag-and-drop metaphor isn't embraced. I want to be able to cut-and-paste (or drag-and-drop using cut-and-paste semantics) my elements - which implies no position rule. The editor could offer options to change to say,, which would enable traditional drag-and-drop, but it wouldn't be default.

I haven't actually tested the above addon, but I'll try to remember to post a review here when I have. --Jesdisciple (talk) 00:52, February 9, 2011 (UTC)