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Forgot the link to the article...have included all relevants links in this one.
Linux.com ran a story about web development tools.They approach it as "web development tools for Linux," but most are available for win32 and OS X. I have almost no experience with commercial web development tools (except when trying to tidy up their ugly code). I use content management systems/wikis/etc. where possible (so others can add content & no one need worry about the code or an editor) & a text editor () when not. That being said, Bluefish, Quanta, and Nvu are all nice. All of these options are discussed in the article, as is Screem, which I haven't seen first-hand. -
Why not give screem a try?For anyone that wants something that's similar to this but does not use the messy WYSIWYG display, try screem:
I've been using it for a while and it's good/open source.
I especially like the inline tagging (If you type <body then a popup with all the options for a body tag appear and if you type </ then it automatically fills out the rest of the end tag.) -
Nice...
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Amazing what you *can't* do with this
You may permit a maximum of ten (10) computers or other electronic devices (each
a "Device") to connect to the Workstation Computer to utilize the services of the Product solely for File and Print services, Internet Information Services, and remote access (including connection sharing and telephony services).
No streaming cameras? No X-10? No RTTY?
Except as otherwise permitted by the
NetMeeting, Remote Assistance, and Remote Desktop features described below, you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer, nor may you permit any Device to use, access, display, or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless the Device has a separate license for the Product.
No web, FTP or gopher servers, apparently including IIS (hooray!), no VNC, probably no SSH or telnet daemons, inasmuch as M$ are certain to define their miserable CLI as a part of XP's user interface.
Now for the scarey bit:
There are technological measures in this Product that are designed to prevent unlicensed or illegal use of the Product. You agree that we may use those measures.
...even if they deliberately or accidentally fail, for example, by refusing to run certain important Open Source products. Remember ``DOS ain't done 'till Lotus won't run?'' Add this clause...
Internet-Based Services Components. The Product contains components that enable and facilitate the use of certain Internet-based services. [but note that this doesn't actully restrict the scope of the following claim to Internet-based service software] You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft may automatically check the version of the Product and/or its components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to the Product that will be automatically downloaded to your Workstation Computer.
OK, here's the big one: we can change any of your software (the ``Product'' and/or components such as applications built to run on it and containing parts of it (runtime library interface module etc) without notice, and you agree to this. This includes new ``measures'' to prevent ``unlicenced or illegal use'' - and it's no great stretch of the imagination to visualise this including software made illegal by the SSSCA such as Apache, PHP or Screem (does FrontPage things only better, faster, cheaper and safer). -
Re:Still with NT on the DesktopWell, let's throw my opinions in the mix. Reading the other comments, I have to agree - Bluefish, while "nice", doesn't give me nearly the kind of things I want from an HTML editor.
For a lot of things, I use SCREEM (http://screem.org). I haven't used HomeSite extensively, but all the features I did use were cloned pretty well in SCREEM. It has site management via the sitecopy tool (HTTP, FTP, and WebDav), syntax highlighting for HTML, PHP, and I think Perl in the latest releases. Previewing can be done in an external browser or via the lightweight GtkHTML widget.
My only real complaint is that it's still a little buggy and sometimes crashes unexpectedly. That, and (like most any HTML editor), it becomes somewhat useless when dealing with lots of SHTML.
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Re:What I'd like to see.
As for a GPL HomeSite work-alike, try Screem. Its very similar, an while it doesn't have some of the more obscure features of HomeSite (yet), it has quite a few really nifty ones of its own. Plus, it is progressing extremely quickly.
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So what if it isn't OSS?
Nobody complains about software not being open-source when Loki ports Civilisation, RT2 or Quake3 - why should games be different to graphics software?
Fact of life: not every little software house in the world can afford to give everything away. And if you really need the tool, you're going to pay for it. Some people think *EVERYTHING* about Linux *MUST* be free - news flash to those people - it actually costs somebody something to get it out there. For example, I'm paying for web-hosting to get SCREEM out to people who appreciate it, at no charge to the users.
In the case of Photogenics, it seems the UI is the attraction over the GIMP, and if somebody decides they need it - and they're willing to pay for it - are you going to make this Linux newbie feel unwelcome? -
Re:Home Site!
Bad! It means that SCREEM will have more competition.
David
(www.screem.org for the interested)