Could say the same about the pub surrounding Linux... At least Apple makes an easy-to-use operating system on which can run complex and easy-to-use software applications.
Then I agree. Being somewhat interested in the flexibility that the assorted Unixes (Linux, BSD, et cetera) provide, it would be cool if the front-end happened to be a Macintosh, and the guts Unix.
First: $99 dollars for a full featured, consitently designed operating system does not strike me as expensive. Yes, you can by a Red Hat or SuSE (for example) Linux distribution. But if you want real drag-and-drop and you want to avoid the retrograde command-line, it seems to me a bargain. And Apple will throw in free OS upgrades (Mac 8.6). Does a certain Redmond-based company do that (Windoze '98)?
First, before I do my recommendations, let me ask why cross-platform compatibility is necessary? It's HTML, for godsakes! Which is to say that it's text. Okay, that said...
Text-only: SimpleText (Mac), NotePad (Win). (Don't use WordPad, which is basically a functioning annoyance/advertisement for Word.)
Text-only but w/ syntax coloring: BBEdit (Mac) is outstanding, but a lot of people already know this. Suffice it to say that BBEdit does much, much more than HTML. EditPlus (Win) is a kind of smarter NotePad. I only just discovered this shareware last week, while trying to find software for the Win-only office in which I'm employed to use for Web page composition. Currently, the group responsible for Web pages uses Lotus Notes for mark-up.
GUI: GoLive (Mac, and soon Win) is extremely nice. ColdFusion (Win) is supposedly good, but as I'm a Mac person I haven't had any experience with it except for a demo I tried at the office. (Comments, anyone?)
Anon, I think you're missing the point of a database like FileMaker Pro. Well designed, stable and easy-to-use software like FileMaker Pro was meant to do away with the likes of you, me and those misnomered corporate entities, Information Technology departments. Some people would rather use the data they have than program a database to provide a simple set of ascending and descending sorts, or budget someone from IT to program the sorts for them.
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Could say the same about the pub surrounding Linux... At least Apple makes an easy-to-use operating system on which can run complex and easy-to-use software applications.
Then I agree. Being somewhat interested in the flexibility that the assorted Unixes (Linux, BSD, et cetera) provide, it would be cool if the front-end happened to be a Macintosh, and the guts Unix.
Two arguments:
First: $99 dollars for a full featured, consitently designed operating system does not strike me as expensive. Yes, you can by a Red Hat or SuSE (for example) Linux distribution. But if you want real drag-and-drop and you want to avoid the retrograde command-line, it seems to me a bargain. And Apple will throw in free OS upgrades (Mac 8.6). Does a certain Redmond-based company do that (Windoze '98)?
Second: You get what you pay for, Natty.
First, before I do my recommendations, let me ask why cross-platform compatibility is necessary? It's HTML, for godsakes! Which is to say that it's text. Okay, that said...
Text-only: SimpleText (Mac), NotePad (Win). (Don't use WordPad, which is basically a functioning annoyance/advertisement for Word.)
Text-only but w/ syntax coloring: BBEdit (Mac) is outstanding, but a lot of people already know this. Suffice it to say that BBEdit does much, much more than HTML. EditPlus (Win) is a kind of smarter NotePad. I only just discovered this shareware last week, while trying to find software for the Win-only office in which I'm employed to use for Web page composition. Currently, the group responsible for Web pages uses Lotus Notes for mark-up.
GUI: GoLive (Mac, and soon Win) is extremely nice. ColdFusion (Win) is supposedly good, but as I'm a Mac person I haven't had any experience with it except for a demo I tried at the office. (Comments, anyone?)
Anon, I think you're missing the point of a database like FileMaker Pro. Well designed, stable and easy-to-use software like FileMaker Pro was meant to do away with the likes of you, me and those misnomered corporate entities, Information Technology departments. Some people would rather use the data they have than program a database to provide a simple set of ascending and descending sorts, or budget someone from IT to program the sorts for them.