Which HTML editors are better than Dreamweaver?

[Magic Toolbox]

Dreamweaver has been the leading HTML editor for about 10 years now. But in the last 5 years, it's hardly improved.

What other editors / IDE's are worth trying as a Dreamweaver alternative?

[MattF]

vi(m).

[tomws]

All of them are better, except FrontPage/Publisher.

My signature provides answers, too.

[nevin]

Well Dreamweaver is the best html editor,apart from it i can suggest
-Frontpage
-Contribute
-CoffeeCup HTML Editor
-Freeway

[drhowarddrfine]

FrontPage has not been available since 2006 and I would never take any advice from anyone who suggests to use it.

[Magic Toolbox]

I wonder if there is something newer that can approach web development from a different/better angle.

For example, has anyone used these two?

http://www.aptana.org

http://www.coderun.com/

[MattF]

Originally Posted by drhowarddrfine

FrontPage has not been available since 2006 and I would never take any advice from anyone who suggests to use it.

That made me chuckle, for some reason.

[MattF]

Originally Posted by Magic Toolbox

I wonder if there is something newer that can approach web development from a different/better angle.

For example, has anyone used these two?

http://www.aptana.org

http://www.coderun.com/

Never used either of those. The question is never whether something is better, btw. It always boils down to a simple case of preference, coding habits and abilities. Some people, like myself, wouldn't code in anything other than a commandline, (vi), editor, whereas others need all the fancy features and UI stuff they can lay their hands upon. There is no one tool fits all solution. Each person has a different style, and will find a tool, (or several), which fit their specific needs/preferences.

[MrEnder]

notepad++ or for something special eclipse

if you want less hassles
if you want to truely design and program the site
if you want a site thats less bloated and easy to make w3c

there is no better way to program then by hand

for error checking use w3c validation and firefox's firebug.

[tomws]

I use Aptana and prefer it to a raw Eclipse installation.

[tomws]

Originally Posted by MrEnder

if you want less hassles
if you want to truely design and program the site
if you want a site thats less bloated and easy to make w3c

there is no better way to program then by hand

I'd be interested in an explanation of how an editor with built-in code completion, function hinting, code folding, and bracket matching make a program more bloated, more of a hassle, and invalid. But perhaps I misunderstand you and you're rather implicating WYSIWYG editors.

[VIPStephan]

Yeah, Dreamweaver is pretty decent in my opinion but it just has too many features I never use and therefore I’m not intrigued to pay such a high price for it. I’m using Coda which has a lot of useful features but is also lacking some I’ve found useful in DW. A mix of the best of both would be perfect.

[Magic Toolbox]

Thanks, Coda looks like a great program http://www.panic.com/coda/, shame it is only for Mac. Another reason to switch from PC to Mac I suppose!

[ScottKCooper]

If you really want to get out there - there is a company called sitegrinder, which pulls "hints" from your photoshop layers, and creates code - that would be some major wysiwyg code! I haven't tried it - has anyone else heard of it, thinking of using it?

[tomws]

Originally Posted by ScottKCooper

If you really want to get out there - there is a company called sitegrinder, which pulls "hints" from your photoshop layers, and creates code - that would be some major wysiwyg code! I haven't tried it - has anyone else heard of it, thinking of using it?

I saw something similar last week (http://psd2cssonline.com/), but haven't played with it.