[FX.php List] Problem with text formatting

[Dale Bengston]

I also endorse the use of Transmit. It is a great FTP/SFTP client. I  
use BBEdit for coding though. One day many years ago, it just  
happened. I found myself writing raw code in BBEdit instead of using  
my WYSIWYG editor.

Dale

On Aug 15, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Michael Layne wrote:

> 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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