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Quanta Gold Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the what-it's-cracked-up-to-be dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ever wondered how commercial Linux Web development environments stack up against those for other OS's? There's a reivew at Digital-Web of Quanta Gold, the commercial HTML editor from theKompany.com. I've always been a fan of Quanta Plus, but it's interesting to see what the commercial application has (and doesn't have). The full review of Quanta Gold can be found here."

2 of 12 comments (clear)

  1. No Documentation? by TaraByte · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't documentation supposed to be one of the big reasons people buy commercial vs. use noncommercial software?

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  2. Re:The reviewer doesn't know about kio_fish by primetyme · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Actually, I am aware of kio_fish, and do use Quanta Plus on KDE 3.1. I've had a few other people point out what you did above, so I think I'll respond to it here..

    kio_fish is a very handy and nice feature for all KDE apps, I totally agree.

    What I was saying in the article though is that there is no built in interface (that I'm aware of) which allows you to browse remote servers from *within* the HTML app itself. Quanta Gold provides that functionality, albeit only through FTP, by including an 'FTP' pane within the application. (This image and this pic (195Kb) for examples of what I mean.

    I also realize that one could set up NFS or Samba mounts on the local FS, to achieve remote connections through the application, but that's not something the Application provides *itself*. So while kio_fish is something I really like and use quite often, it would slow development down a lot to have to open up each file individually via File -> Open -> Location -> fish://...

    It's a lot faster to be able to view the remote directories in realtime and being able to select which files you wish to open with something as simple as a double-click.

    Appreciate the feedback,

    Dan