html editor suggestions please

[yippiekyyay]

Hey Forum,

I use Homesite, but when people bring me large files I just throw it into FrontPage and then start "cutting the fat" (I'm talking about all the unecessary tags these editors throw in).

I was just wondering if anyone had ever tested alot of these html WYSIWYG editors and which one delivered the cleanest code?

Thanks,

-Sean

 

[onpnt]

the only one that will produce the cleanest code is one that is not a WYSIWYG.

http://www.textpad.com

or even

http://www.coffeecup.com

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[Targol]

First page 2000 is a cool HTML editor but... as all good HTML editor, it's a text mode one. You can find this freeware here :

http://www.evrsoft.com

Water is not bad as long as it stays out human body ;-)

 

[mwolf00]

"which one delivered the cleanest code" - not really possible with a WYSIWYG editor. No comparison to hand coding! Another vote for

http://www.textpad.com.

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[cian]

Frontpage is not a HTML editor, it's a WYSIWYG editor.
Try textpad or ten times better is Html-kit,

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

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[Targol]

Will HTML editors war begin with this post ????
Let's call Kofi Annan, Quick !!! LOL LOL LOL Water is not bad as long as it stays out human body ;-)

 

[yippiekyyay]

Thanks for the replies everyone (fast too!)

I think the subject heading I used was misleading! (sorry for the confusion)

First I'd like to say that I'm an old-fashioned hard coder myself! Our site posts hundreds of scientific reports which we provide in pdf and html. I'd like to hard code each one - I just don't have the time to start from scratch for each one - especially as every single one of them contains several tables!

What I was saying in my first post was that I use a WYSIWYG editor to get the html file to save time, and then I open it up in Homesite to clean it up. This is a pretty good system I think - I was just wondering which one would do the best job so that there would be less for me to edit in an editor...?

Thanks everyone!

-Sean

 

[miahmiah]

If you want to use a wysiwyg editor, my favorite (based on quality of code) is Macromedia's Dreamweaver. Good luck!

 

[Christylh8]

I love Dreamweaver MX, but I can't say it won't add some unecessaries. What I haven't been able to clear up myself by hand, I've used a program called Pretty HTML (

http://mpp.at/pretty/)

to clean it up and save me time when necessary. Hope that helps.

 

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[yippiekyyay]

Sounds like Dreamweaver is a good way to go - I'll try their demo today. Of course I expect some "unecessaries" (as Christylh put it) but the goal here is to save time.

Thanks again everyone!

-Sean

 

[jstreich]

How about, using PHP, and include or require the sections that are on everypage, and MySQL to do the dynamic content.