I'm going to say the IDE because, at least with VS, there are things in there that don't directly apply to the language. For example, TFS support.
>Of course he's wrong, notepad sucks big time - it can't even select a word properly. The best editor for html, css, and perhaps javascript (although the other one, e editor, that I have is more helpful in matching and highlighting the matching brackets) is Fox's editor. I would love to have a tag matcher - select a piece of text, press a hotkey and get an inputbox where you enter the tag... well, could write that one in Fox, I guess.
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>But other than that, if you're doing web stuff, you don't need any damn compilers etc. You shouldn't need them. It's all just text. That VS requires a screaming machine is just proof how lame it has all become. The dev suite is getting too big and too complicated. I just wonder how much time it takes to learn the dev IDE vs time to learn the language you're working in.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer