Author: Alexander Mamchenkov

I see more and more people are starting to do web programming (including HTML, JavaScript, PHP/Perl) in kind of IDEs like Dreamwaver, Frontpage, Nvu and so on. It looks a bit weired for me. First of all coding in proper text editor (like Vim) gives you all kinds of features like text highlighting, tags auto completion, multi-file editing and so on. Second, while writing your code directly in editor you specify proper names of styles/classes/whatever from the beginning instead of your IDE assigning some stupid names like style1, id15 and similar and than you going over to correct them (or sometimes navigating through 100 GUI menus to change them or even leaving them like that). Third, you can write all-browsers-compatible code from the start instead of dropping elements here/there which will perfectly work in let\’s say Internet Explorer and then trying understand what code was generated by IDE and adjust it. Finally, coding with text editors makes you think more and thus make better code then just letting things go as they done automatically and then correct a bunch of problems and not taking into consideration other bunch of problems because your IDE couldn\’t do it well and you haven\’t thought about it since you even haven\’t seen the code.