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What is the best HTML editor to build web application? What I mean is HTML editor that comes with a (relatively) comprehensive set of Form Object templates like radio button, HTML table (editable, like Excel), drop-down icon, etc, etc.

I've tried M$ FrontPage, but it doesn't satisfy me so far. I already have Windows version of Open Office (without JRE), but it doesn't come with a dedicated HTML editor (and building HTML page with OpenOffice Writer is quite a nightmare --it's a word processor anyway).

A friend of mine suggested Web Serif, but google search (whether using the keywords 'WebSerif' or 'Web Serif') has been fruitless so far. The best result I could get are this and this. Thus, I wonder whether the software called 'WebSerif' (or 'Web Serif') really exists; is there really such animal?

How about Mozilla Composer? Is that good enough to design Web Form?

Or maybe I should use PHP IDE like Eclipse?

Any suggestion?

I always just use my text editor and write it by hand. HTML isn't too hard to learn if you wanted to go that way.


Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express is a free download that might do it though:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/

Destructionator XV wrote:I always just use my text editor and write it by hand. HTML isn't too hard to learn if you wanted to go that way.


Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express is a free download that might do it though:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/

This is gonna' be a quickie actually, so I'll pick a GUI tool.

Maybe I'm gonna try the MS Web Developer Express. How about the resulting web forms, though? Are they gonna' be "IE-only" web forms? Furthermore, the coding will be done in PHP, not ASP. Will they be any problems?

PHP handles the logic; if you are going to just make the forms, that is in HTML, so the PHP/ASP/whatever doesn't matter.

The VS output is all W3C recommendations compliant. And there really aren't any such thing as IE only web forms anyway,

Destructionator XV wrote:The VS output is all W3C recommendations compliant. And there really aren't any such thing as IE only web forms anyway,

I see. By the way, what does it actually mean when one says 'IE-only web page'? What kind of web elements that are browser-dependent?

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:I see. By the way, what does it actually mean when one says 'IE-only web page'? What kind of web elements that are browser-dependent?

Scripting mostly. Some javascript parts don't work on different browsers, and active-x scripting is a Microsoft technology.

There are minor differences in how tags and CSS are rendered, but if you stick to the simpler recommendations, this should not be an issue.

Get what Adam reccomended, I've been using it the past 6 months, slowly creating more complex things. It rocks. The visual editor isn't the best for linking together things, you should tweak those manually, but it's fine except for that.