One would assume, seeing as it's 2006 and all, that he intends to rebuild the site as a modern standards compliant site. Even if he chose html 4.01 instead of xhtml it's still best practice to close all your tags.
ctrl+shift+y with web developer also displays the dom path....and there are like 4 other menu items in web developer that also display the dom path. Then there's the DOM inspector which also displays the dom path. And theres an arrow in teh dom inspector that u click, then click somewhere on the page and it automatically navigates to that node in the DOM. And from there you can view every last drop of info about that element, whether is be javascript or css related.
replaces and replaces .... i thought that was OBVIOUS to everyone. <b> and <i> are deprecated even if browsers continue to support them in standard compliant rendering modes and strict doctypes.
for lazy people who don't like writing < s t r o n g > just write <b> and find/replace with <strong> when you're finished.
You shouldnt be replacing spacer.gif with anything! Spacer gifs should be removed entirely then use simple css to achieve the exact same layout (sometimes a better and more flexible layout and definitely faster) without using any tables
agreed. It's like trying to get content out of a html file made with Word. It's better to just preview it in a browser and copy the rendered text instead of the source.
I think the site he's talking about is just a couple hundred static html files. So dreamweaver is just fine. Although the only thing I'd use it for is building the diagram of what file links to what and detecting unused files and renaming all the badly named files and have all links to them updated sitewide.
yip Jedit is the only thing close to BBEdit available for windows, but it's not that close. I have high hopes for it thos and I check it out regularly.
if you're not a keyboard fanatic like emacs and vim users and have no intention of becoming one BBEdit and Jedit are the 2 best choices. BBEdit has my most favorite search/replace window compared to the dozen or so text editors I've tried for windows over the last couple months. Including ultraedit and other windows ones mentoined in these comments.
on the mac, connect to your ftp using Transmit. 'Open' the file from transmit and it will open in whatever is your default editor for that file (BBEdit, Photoshop, quicktime etc...). When you 'save' the saved temp file gets uploaded automatically.
bring all the files into Dreamweaver as a 'site' then as I changed the filenames (i think) DW would automatically update all links to those files.
DW will also report which files are used by no pages in the site. And which pages are not linked to by any pages in the site.
Write some sort of applescript that would open all the files in bbedit and change their line endings (should be simple I think but I've never done it myself).
For fixing the broken html, just run it through one of the many applications based on HTML Tidy. I'm sure there's something automated out there.
this is windows we're talking about. Most people wind up needing to be admin eventually.
btw, 4 or 5 separate times I lost everything in my windows profile...it was windows ITSELF telling me it found something funky about my profile and would attempt to fix it. Fixing it === deleting it without asking my permission. Happened in Me and XP
that was 'years ago' before the web was what it is today. I think every os should have a browser bundled with it. It's kinda silly not to these days with so much functionality and information on the web.
--The reason that people keep using Windows is because their old software works.--
I've always wondered what are these old programs that are so damned important. I don't work in a large corporate office so I have no idea. Is there a list somewhere?
From the many many small businesses/home users I've seen in my area the ONLY thing they use is Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.
How many of these old programs would be better off running in a virtual machine for backwards compatibility so MS can finally junk the legacy crap and move on to make a better OS?
If Linux got 10% desktop market share, and Apple 25%, would that make Microsoft no longer a monopoly?
it gets beat up about IE because it's business practices related to IE vs Netscape were very very unfair and illegal. Go read Judge Pennfield Jackson's report before mentioning the IE stuff.
I personally don't see why they're in hot water about WMP. Have they been illegally pressuring OEMs to not pre-install any other media player on their boxes?
isn't safari just a window into the web rendering engine thats built into OSX. Explaining why many other OSX browsers have the exact same rendering as Safari...and the authors didnt actually write a html rendering engine. Just a new interface into the one built into the OS.
So it's not much different than IE....except that it's had 100,000 less flaws/exploits.
I thought that was the point the author was trying to make.
I think, should OSX get super popular over the coming holidays and malware/virus authors start targeting it and have much success....OSX will still be better than Windows because as the author points out, it'll probably be much much easier for a seasoned user to rid themselves of the problem using the many tools/features/built-in common sense of OS X.
I used to be a seasoned windows user. I no longer have the time and patience for windows' bullshit. My answer to every windows problem is a new installation. Works every time. Only takes a couple minutes.
CORRECTION: The only way to be [completely] sure the system (Windows) is malware-free is to completely wipe the hard drive and reinstall (Windows)the operating system.'"
you're right I would buy something other than an ipod to spite the ipod users....but I don't think I'll be buying a zune. I actually have an old ipod someone gave to me. I don't like it that much and have so far compiled a list 27 additions that I think would make me love it (withing removing anything already present in the ipod that people love). I don't see 'any' of my ideas in the zune and I'm sure it's missing some of the good things about the ipod.
But most of all, I want an MP3/OGG/lots-of-other-formats player. I have a nice collection of my favorite music from the last 8 years, I have no need for anybody's online music store. I just want to play what I alreay have, no matter what format it's in.
a lot of posts in reply to this article are pretty preposterous.
and if some people choose to dislike osx cuz the menu bars aren't attached to the windows then I can choose to dislike it because I hate finder...even though x.4 is hops, skips, leaps, and bounds ahead of what it was in x.2
while explorer has stagnated and became increasingly crash prone.
yeah sounds like every make believe OS/compter interface from every movie/comic book/cartoon/anime/ ever.
Back when the world was 100% command lines people were imagining and drawing fancy GUI that shined and glowed and varied in opacity and distorted their components, and animated in some way.
We all know that's what we want our OS to really be like more or less (except for hardcore command line people).
In 2 years I have used spotlight maybe 4 times. In 2 years I have used search in xp maybe um... uh... oh, yeah, about 2 times...
from what I remember, neither windows or mac searching are all that great or important or useful to any of the things I use my computers for. I don't get the hype?
I tend to naturally remember the path to everything I ever created or use frequently. Finder is crappy at showing me my path or letting me type in paths to do stuff. Explorer in Vista's address bar is looking sweet.
yeah, microsoft's been 'busy', but they've neither 'greatly' nor 'noticeably' improved ANYTHING much. I had to use OS X.2 last night for about 20 minutes. I gave up and went home. Was a pain in the ass.
But I've been using 10.3 and 10.4 at work for the past year and a half and have been very productive.
Anyone have any any idea why it takes my system (64bit AMD 2GHZ, 2.5GB ram, 310GB FREE HD space) about 45 minutes after booting before Windows is usable? And about 8 minutes on averate to launch calc.exe even when windows is functioning normally?
Please don't say vista hijacks 1/3 of your free drive space to store multiple versions like how XP currently does for system restore.
It seems apple's time machine only works when you have the media you backed up to connected to the system. If that's the case personally I'd love it that way. Of course there'd probably be the ""option"" to have a 2nd internal drive or a portion of your main drive as the backup location.
Unlike window's system restore which seems to only be capable of hijacking space on all the internal drives to store restore points, which is kinda fucking stupid to me. What happens if there's a physical problem and drive dies? All the backups/restore points were on it!
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One would assume, seeing as it's 2006 and all, that he intends to rebuild the site as a modern standards compliant site. Even if he chose html 4.01 instead of xhtml it's still best practice to close all your tags.
ctrl+shift+y with web developer also displays the dom path....and there are like 4 other menu items in web developer that also display the dom path.
Then there's the DOM inspector which also displays the dom path. And theres an arrow in teh dom inspector that u click, then click somewhere on the page and it automatically navigates to that node in the DOM. And from there you can view every last drop of info about that element, whether is be javascript or css related.
replaces and replaces .... i thought that was OBVIOUS to everyone.
<b> and <i> are deprecated even if browsers continue to support them in standard compliant rendering modes and strict doctypes.
for lazy people who don't like writing < s t r o n g > just write <b> and find/replace with <strong> when you're finished.
that's just horrible.
you suck.
You shouldnt be replacing spacer.gif with anything!
Spacer gifs should be removed entirely then use simple css to achieve the exact same layout (sometimes a better and more flexible layout and definitely faster) without using any tables
It's like trying to get content out of a html file made with Word.
It's better to just preview it in a browser and copy the rendered text instead of the source.
then it's easy to automate
around each line in your editor.
I think the site he's talking about is just a couple hundred static html files. So dreamweaver is just fine. Although the only thing I'd use it for is building the diagram of what file links to what and detecting unused files and renaming all the badly named files and have all links to them updated sitewide.
wtf!!!!!!t s/index.html
textpad!!!!
LOOK AT THIS
http://www.textpad.com/products/textpad/screensho
I'm sorry but that is too much crap html in that screenshot for me to take that program seriously!
I wouldn't touch it with a 10 ft pole because of that screenshot.
And if I did touch it with a 10 ft pole it'd be to beat the snot out of it.
have you ever tried any of the firefox extension that let you edit the css live in the browser?
yip Jedit is the only thing close to BBEdit available for windows, but it's not that close.
I have high hopes for it thos and I check it out regularly.
if you're not a keyboard fanatic like emacs and vim users and have no intention of becoming one BBEdit and Jedit are the 2 best choices.
BBEdit has my most favorite search/replace window compared to the dozen or so text editors I've tried for windows over the last couple months. Including ultraedit and other windows ones mentoined in these comments.
on the mac, connect to your ftp using Transmit. 'Open' the file from transmit and it will open in whatever is your default editor for that file (BBEdit, Photoshop, quicktime etc...). When you 'save' the saved temp file gets uploaded automatically.
I would....
bring all the files into Dreamweaver as a 'site' then as I changed the filenames (i think) DW would automatically update all links to those files.
DW will also report which files are used by no pages in the site. And which pages are not linked to by any pages in the site.
Write some sort of applescript that would open all the files in bbedit and change their line endings (should be simple I think but I've never done it myself).
For fixing the broken html, just run it through one of the many applications based on HTML Tidy. I'm sure there's something automated out there.
this is windows we're talking about. Most people wind up needing to be admin eventually.
btw, 4 or 5 separate times I lost everything in my windows profile...it was windows ITSELF telling me it found something funky about my profile and would attempt to fix it. Fixing it === deleting it without asking my permission. Happened in Me and XP
Exactly
really one just needs to read a couple of pages of the report by judge penfield jackson to get a proper understanding.
http://www.albion.com/microsoft/
it's all there
only really need to skim through I. V. and VII.
that was 'years ago' before the web was what it is today.
I think every os should have a browser bundled with it. It's kinda silly not to these days with so much functionality and information on the web.
--The reason that people keep using Windows is because their old software works.--
I've always wondered what are these old programs that are so damned important. I don't work in a large corporate office so I have no idea. Is there a list somewhere?
From the many many small businesses/home users I've seen in my area the ONLY thing they use is Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.
How many of these old programs would be better off running in a virtual machine for backwards compatibility so MS can finally junk the legacy crap and move on to make a better OS?
If Linux got 10% desktop market share, and Apple 25%, would that make Microsoft no longer a monopoly?
it gets beat up about IE because it's business practices related to IE vs Netscape were very very unfair and illegal. Go read Judge Pennfield Jackson's report before mentioning the IE stuff.
I personally don't see why they're in hot water about WMP. Have they been illegally pressuring OEMs to not pre-install any other media player on their boxes?
isn't safari just a window into the web rendering engine thats built into OSX. Explaining why many other OSX browsers have the exact same rendering as Safari...and the authors didnt actually write a html rendering engine. Just a new interface into the one built into the OS.
So it's not much different than IE....except that it's had 100,000 less flaws/exploits.
I thought that was the point the author was trying to make.
I think, should OSX get super popular over the coming holidays and malware/virus authors start targeting it and have much success....OSX will still be better than Windows because as the author points out, it'll probably be much much easier for a seasoned user to rid themselves of the problem using the many tools/features/built-in common sense of OS X.
I used to be a seasoned windows user. I no longer have the time and patience for windows' bullshit. My answer to every windows problem is a new installation. Works every time. Only takes a couple minutes.
CORRECTION:
The only way to be [completely] sure the system (Windows) is malware-free is to completely wipe the hard drive and reinstall (Windows)the operating system.'"
get it right.
you're right I would buy something other than an ipod to spite the ipod users....but I don't think I'll be buying a zune.
I actually have an old ipod someone gave to me. I don't like it that much and have so far compiled a list 27 additions that I think would make me love it (withing removing anything already present in the ipod that people love). I don't see 'any' of my ideas in the zune and I'm sure it's missing some of the good things about the ipod.
But most of all, I want an MP3/OGG/lots-of-other-formats player.
I have a nice collection of my favorite music from the last 8 years, I have no need for anybody's online music store. I just want to play what I alreay have, no matter what format it's in.
a lot of posts in reply to this article are pretty preposterous. and if some people choose to dislike osx cuz the menu bars aren't attached to the windows then I can choose to dislike it because I hate finder...even though x.4 is hops, skips, leaps, and bounds ahead of what it was in x.2 while explorer has stagnated and became increasingly crash prone.
yeah sounds like every make believe OS/compter interface from every movie/comic book/cartoon/anime/ ever.
Back when the world was 100% command lines people were imagining and drawing fancy GUI that shined and glowed and varied in opacity and distorted their components, and animated in some way.
We all know that's what we want our OS to really be like more or less (except for hardcore command line people).
In 2 years I have used spotlight maybe 4 times.
In 2 years I have used search in xp maybe um... uh...
oh, yeah, about 2 times...
from what I remember, neither windows or mac searching are all that great or important or useful to any of the things I use my computers for. I don't get the hype?
I tend to naturally remember the path to everything I ever created or use frequently.
Finder is crappy at showing me my path or letting me type in paths to do stuff.
Explorer in Vista's address bar is looking sweet.
yeah, microsoft's been 'busy', but they've neither 'greatly' nor 'noticeably' improved ANYTHING much.
I had to use OS X.2 last night for about 20 minutes. I gave up and went home. Was a pain in the ass.
But I've been using 10.3 and 10.4 at work for the past year and a half and have been very productive.
Anyone have any any idea why it takes my system (64bit AMD 2GHZ, 2.5GB ram, 310GB FREE HD space)
about 45 minutes after booting before Windows is usable?
And about 8 minutes on averate to launch calc.exe even when windows is functioning normally?
Where exactly are these files recovered from?
Please don't say vista hijacks 1/3 of your free drive space to store multiple versions like how XP currently does for system restore.
It seems apple's time machine only works when you have the media you backed up to connected to the system. If that's the case personally I'd love it that way. Of course there'd probably be the ""option"" to have a 2nd internal drive or a portion of your main drive as the backup location.
Unlike window's system restore which seems to only be capable of hijacking space on all the internal drives to store restore points, which is kinda fucking stupid to me. What happens if there's a physical problem and drive dies? All the backups/restore points were on it!