[FX.php List] Problem with text formatting

[Michael Layne]

Bob,

I used to use and train Dreamweaver (and GoLive) years ago.  As I  
started becoming more of a "developer", I realized I needed to move  
to more serious tools.  Yep, As good as Dreamweaver is (probably  
still the best professional WYSIWYG out there) It was breaking things  
and one day I started to see the light about writing your own clean  
code.

BBedit was a natural migration (being on a Mac), then I got used to  
it and was a bit fearful of jumping to something else... until I  
forced myself to start using TextMate.  WOW.  Now, I cannot stand  
WYSIWYG editors (although many colleagues use them).  Don't get me  
wrong, I am well aware of the rich feature set of Dreamweaver, but  
try this:

TextMate (http://macromates.com/) - pure, powerful text editor for  
everything under the sun

CSSEdit (http://macrabbit.com/) - pure CSS editor (yeah, definitely  
GUI-ish - although I usually use the text mode).  Who'd of thought  
some guy in Belgium could create such an awesome one stop shop CSS  
editor

Transmit (http://www.panic.com/) - FTP client (about as good as they  
get) that fully integrate with the first two apps.

It's like having three fighter jets at your disposal rather than a  
C-5 cargo plane.  Do you really need all that extra weight?

HTH

Michael

P.S. I say all this as I am working on a PHP/FileMaker/MySQL project.


On Aug 15, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Bob Patin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks guys; I've been using Dreamweaver (hard to stop after a long  
> time using it), and when you switch the view to the WYSIWYG view,  
> it updates the page. I could see that, after I replaced the META  
> tag, that the Japanese characters changed a bit... so I think it's  
> already done.
>
> At Devcon I saw a nice demo of Textmate and CSSEdit (thanks to the  
> good Joel Shapiro), which I vow to start using, but Dreamweaver's  
> really handy for its combination of preview, FTP, and code.  
> However, yesterday it really messed up a page I was working on; I  
> added a table row above my FOREACH code for cranking out records  
> into a table, and Dreamweaver most kindly deleted my PHP code. It  
> took me quite a while (it's a really complex page) to find it  
> too... very aggravating. A good reason to bail on Dreamweaver.
>
> Bob Patin
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> On Aug 15, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Troy Meyers wrote:
>
>> I think what Kevin is saying, is that once you change the META in  
>> the file, you also need to _save_ the file with the Shift_JIS  
>> encoding. If you are using BBEdit, look at the dropdown menus at  
>> the bottom of the window. One of them probably says "Western (Mac  
>> OS Roman)" or better, "Unicode (UTF-8)" but you should click on it  
>> and change it to "Japanese (Shift JIS)" and then save the file.  
>> That way the file encoding matches what you are declaring in the  
>> META tag.
>>
>> Is that what you meant, Kevin?
>
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