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By: Keilaron

Keilaron — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:22:02 +0000

Well, my previous comment seems to have been eaten by the anti-spam (whoops?) so I’ll repost in case it isn’t just the moderators taking their time.

I was going to mention Firefox extensions, but it seems they’ve been mentioned a good ten or so times already, so I’ll just talk about my favorite editor:
I use jEdit, which I find a lot more sophisticated than Dreamweaver. The only thing it doesn’t have over DW is the design view (although perhaps the infoviewer plug-in could do it), which I never really liked anyway (WYSIWYG is not valid for web design! Sorry. If you want that, please stick with home sites – previewing with it is one thing, but using WYSIWYG to entirely make pages is not professional at all). It is a Java program, therefore almost no matter what your operating system is, you can use the same editor. It has plug-ins for just about everything (XML validation, PHP validation, many edit modes and syntax checkers, (S)FTP upload, even an IRC client!), so I suggest you give it a try.
At least, if you consider yourself “professional”. ;>

By: Keilaron

Keilaron — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:20:46 +0000

Alec Burgess – Because strictly speaking, all attribute values should be quote-enclosed! It was only allowed for pure numeric (0-9 only, hex excluded) in HTML 3 or 4 transitional for there to be no quotes.

Your regular expression got cut off. Try again? Also, what do you mean support for REs is limited? What’s missing?

By: Doodlebug

Doodlebug — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:32:48 +0000

HMMM- To Validate or not To Validate–That is the question : ) I say if you like it–USE IT ! And be thankful for GOTD And all the free stuff the give away-You kow they don’t HAVE to do this. If You don’t like it–don’t use it-Use what you like. But Please,Please Please-Refrain from all the Technicle,Hudu Garb and Such. I mean–One Guy said He manages over 100 sites–Good for him-So who has time for all thast Techno Garb right ? Ya,Ya,I know this comment is pretty much useless,But I have a right to throw in my 2 cents now and then :) BTW – I have a web site too- If your that worried about html being perfect-just get one of those Free “Drag and Drop No html Required Programs ” Such as WebPlus from Serif. Works For Me !

By: TRIVUz

TRIVUz — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:33:37 +0000

Really Great!

By: Alec Burgess

Alec Burgess — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:00:13 +0000

Regular expression support (those of you who know what they are will understand this :P) is severely limited.

I grabbed a page at random to see how quickly I could get it to verify clean.

It complains about that any hex color string NOT enclosed in quotes (single or double) is an error.

This regular expression:
Find=(?

By: Beaver-Cleaver

Beaver-Cleaver — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:56:52 +0000

I just wanted to say that I think it’s fabulous that this site offers the opportunity for the budget-minded to get some software for free.
If it helps me then that’s even better but even if it doesnt, at least I know before putting down a wad of bills that I could have used elsewhere.
Bravo!!! and thank you very much. ;)

By: Wanda

Wanda — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:54:57 +0000

Re: Comment by sam — August 9th, 2007 at 5:34 am
If you were a professional you would be more concerned about those little things that you say “doesn’t matter”. It only takes a small mistake in code to cause a lot of problems on the page. Also you would be more careful about the spelling of your words.

That said: Thanks GOTD for this great Give-away! I really get tired of all the useless give-aways. This is a very good and useful one! Thanks, but I’m not submitting my web-url. I have a business site, and there are enough baddie bots crawling it already.

By: Krolik

Krolik — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:07:59 +0000

Hmm. Not what I’ve come here for. Somebody tell me, why real player format won’t burn on a DVD? That’s the kind of program I’m looking for.. Free ‘course..

By: winbird

winbird — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:03:31 +0000

This one activated ok this morning and is now an expired trial which does nothing. If you spent time this morning using it successfully – try it now!

By: kirby145

kirby145 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:53:42 +0000

Number 29 needs to use HTML Tidy which will correct the code up to a point. Really serious errors will not be corrected, but reported. No one should be confusing Standard or Professional version on a give away. The Pro version is to the right above and listed under “More titles…”. I use the W3C HTML/CSS validators plus my HTML Editor has a built in HTML Tidy. Still, some of the functions offered by CSE HTML Validator seem to make it well worth having as an additional tool.

Html TiDy will do a lot more for you than a paid program.