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Free html IDE tool?
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05/12/2012 10:42:42
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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HTML5
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Miscellaneous
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01558791
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>>>>Until I make my VS 2012 stable (ok, it must be my computer problem) I need an IDE to "play" with HTML5, jQuery, and other Javascript tools. Any recommendations of a simple, stable, and free HTML5/Javascript IDE?
>>>>
>>>>TIA.
>>>>
>>>>P.S. Please don't recommend a Notepad <g>.
>>>
>>>You beat me to it... OK, then, modify command something.html :).
>>
>>Let's see if anyone can beat your suggestion :)
>
>Now, seriously, I'm using the e editor (at http://www.e-texteditor.com/ - bought it when it had cost about $25 or $35). While it's not Wysiwyg in any way, it's actually better than that. Because, as I've learned from experience, Wysiwyg won't show you the behavior. Nothing will, but the browser itself. Um, make that plural - them browsers and their associated selven. OTOH, I've seen those visual editors misbehave with the source to the point where you can't recognize what you just wrote. They seem to insist on their own version of code beautifier, which is more along the lines of "we don't need no line breaks", "indentation is for sissies", "twenty blank lines are as good as one". And on yet another hand (many hands this beast has), once you go beyond about 3 levels of containership on your page, your visual editor is unusable. You can't select your object by any combination of clicks - you'd need a treeview somewhere. Which you have in FireBug (works fine in Firefox and Chrome - haven't tried other versions, if any), actually a combination of "click close enough" and "drill down the containership tree". That, combined with good intellisense editor (which Firebug is too, at least for styles - plus it forces the browser to render your changes immediately, which you can then copy to your stylesheet-javascript-html9-or-whatever) is all the editing tools you need.

Thank you for the suggestion. I will check it out.
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