From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 26 08:52:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA28673 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:52:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA28534 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:51:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA09816 for newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:50:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:50:19 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199806261550.IAA09816@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How important is "the OS?" In-Reply-To: <000c01bda0af$ece39260$c72ff7c7@morrigan> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >From: "Marcel Mason" >Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 23:10:06 -0400 >a stick at. Unfortunately the same is not true for FreeBSD. As such, >unless someone can point me in the direction of a decent HTML >editor for *nix, I still need Win9x (horrors, I supose I could create & >edit web pages in pico or vi }}}}}} shudder {{{{{ but I'd rather have >a *nix version of Arachnophilia or Galts WebMaster Pro). What, pray tell, is wrong with using a text editor to write programs? Please recall that the final letter of "HTML" stands for "Language". In practice, I find that have some (different) Web browsers pointed at a page under construction on a Web server, and having a window open on the page (or the CGI script that generates the page, or the data that the CGI script reads to generate the page -- maybe multiple windows, one for each source) works just fine. And it helps avoid the "well, it works with *this* browser" syndrome. (Might also have a window open on a similar set of page(-generation tool)s that already work, as an example, too....) It's simple; it's easy to use; I can see the results... and I can control what happens. Then again, I dislike driving an automobile with an automatic transmission.... :-} Each to his or her own, though, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message