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sde · 05-08-2002, 10:56 PM

Today i had a chance to experience dreamweaver mx on a titanium laptop. never before have i really liked dreamweaver , or most html editors for that matter, but mx has taken it to another level. it supports php now, so you can just use it in a text-editor environment while it does full syntax-hi-lighting for php code. it also acknowledges that you are using server-side scripting and requests the server info so you can preview your code with the push of 1 button ( F12 ) . when you press f12, it uploads and opens your file in the browser of your choice. The things that make a text-editor good for me is line numbering and syntax hi-lighting. now with the publish feature, and some pretty slick table-creation tools, .. i think i want to use dreamweaver.

however .. dreamweaver puts quotes around every little thing and when you use that html in php, every quote must be escaped with a backslash. I've seen editors that allow you to highlight a string of text and it will escape all necessary characters, .. but i didn't find that in dreamweaver. i didn't spend too long with it, but that for sure would be icing on the cake.

oh yeah.. and once again osx is a dope os. the pulsating ok buttons are pretty slick. i wish macs weren't so expensive.

05-08-2002, 10:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
sde Moderator Join Date: May 2002 Location: us.ca Posts: 4,446	dreamweaver mx Today i had a chance to experience dreamweaver mx on a titanium laptop. never before have i really liked dreamweaver , or most html editors for that matter, but mx has taken it to another level. it supports php now, so you can just use it in a text-editor environment while it does full syntax-hi-lighting for php code. it also acknowledges that you are using server-side scripting and requests the server info so you can preview your code with the push of 1 button ( F12 ) . when you press f12, it uploads and opens your file in the browser of your choice. The things that make a text-editor good for me is line numbering and syntax hi-lighting. now with the publish feature, and some pretty slick table-creation tools, .. i think i want to use dreamweaver. however .. dreamweaver puts quotes around every little thing and when you use that html in php, every quote must be escaped with a backslash. I've seen editors that allow you to highlight a string of text and it will escape all necessary characters, .. but i didn't find that in dreamweaver. i didn't spend too long with it, but that for sure would be icing on the cake. oh yeah.. and once again osx is a dope os. the pulsating ok buttons are pretty slick. i wish macs weren't so expensive.