Do you write html in notepad?

[Xav]

It allows you to render IE pages inside FF, so you could run Windows Update within FF, rendered using IE.

[chili5]

Oh wow that's useful. I'm getting that later

[Xav]

Yep. And it works with FF 3. It's so useful. You get a tiny little icon in the bottom right of the screen with the FF logo, and if you click it it changes to the IE logo and rerenders the page using IE. The right-click menus and everything change. You can also right-click on links and tell it to open it in an IE tab, and if you go to Windows Update in FF, it automatically switches over to the IE rendering.

[seliver]

I just doesn't see another way to programm something, but by notepad(of course i'm speaking about php, html, css, etc..)
I always get frustrated with the programs like Dreamweaver, and sincerly, i can't understand them very well, so i prefer the notepad.

[chili5]

text editors are best for programming except for C++ and java i find

[G_Morgan]

Originally Posted by chili5

text editors are best for programming except for C++ and java i find

API's make a difference as well. I'd rather cross the Sahara Desert naked than try to write Win32 GUI code by hand. This is an argument against Win32 rather than an argument for GUI editors though. A sane GUI library can be handled much easier. Even Swing is several orders of magnitude easier to use than Win32.

[chili5]

yeah, maybe for more complex things, IDE's and software is better but for small to medium things, I find text editors work quite well. However all my windows programming, i do in software like Visual studio.

[G_Morgan]

Originally Posted by chili5

yeah, maybe for more complex things, IDE's and software is better but for small to medium things, I find text editors work quite well. However all my windows programming, i do in software like Visual studio.

s/complex/badly designed/ then I agree.

It's interesting that Microsoft made an API so bad you could only realistically use it via complex automated tools then actually made money from selling those tools and turned the requirement into a norm. Basically every advantage of things like VS disappear on Unix like systems.

Compare Win32 with the KDE4 API and you realise just how badly software can be designed. I like that a Phonon audio player can be instantiated loaded with a file and played in 3/4 lines of code. Compare that with DirectSound.

[Xav]

I find the IntelliSense incredibly useful in VS (and VWD) - it makes coding so much less tedious.

[G_Morgan]

IntelliSense is also useful in the huge multitude of other IDE's that implement this most basic feature . In fact the Netbeans version is either nicer because it does things like allowing you to skip across the parameter list by hitting tab. Also it interfaces with Javadoc nicely.