Not a tool per se but I miss Charles Petzold's Programming Windows book in its earliest editions. People forget how difficult it was to find well written programmer documentation in the pre-Internet and dialup-era Internet days. His book was a shining example of how good a programming book could be.
Yes, the WYSIWYG was WYSIWYG, so it produced mediocre markup (tho eons better than FrontPage).
But the code view was solid. You could use it to write PHP with syntax highlighting and then switch to WYSIWYG view for editing copy and doing light formatting like bold/italics/headings.
And Dreamweaver had a DOM-based HTML search/replace that I’ve never seen the like of elsewhere. It was utterly brilliant and saved me hours each week.
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Yes, the WYSIWYG was WYSIWYG, so it produced mediocre markup (tho eons better than FrontPage).
But the code view was solid. You could use it to write PHP with syntax highlighting and then switch to WYSIWYG view for editing copy and doing light formatting like bold/italics/headings.
And Dreamweaver had a DOM-based HTML search/replace that I’ve never seen the like of elsewhere. It was utterly brilliant and saved me hours each week.
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