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Posted by dorayme on 04/25/06 05:57
In article <e2hkk1$706$0@pita.alt.net>, Bob <bob@bob.org> wrote:
> Homesite ....has a
> "tag selector" which is something else I am looking for. Why would any
> web designer prefer to use a Notepad-type application and type out all
> their tags by hand instead of using writing HTML with one of these tag
> selector programs that lets you grab the tags off a menu? It would seem
> to be so much faster to use the application and just grab the tags.
Grabbing tags from menus becomes quite inconvenient. It is slow
and fiddly and you would need to do it so often if that is how
you do it. It is very clumsy indeed. (It is good for when you
forget things and need a reminder of what is there, and while
there you grab it or otherwise order it to appear).
Better is keyboard shortcuts. There are all sorts of ways of
doing this. On OS 9 on a Mac, I used a macro prgm to make a set
of keyboard shortcuts. For example, control p and <p> appears,
control option p and </p> appears. All in this pattern, control
for the opening, control option for the closing. How convenient
this was I am now realising acutely in OS X as I have not got
around to making an equivalent, having to actually type and cut
and paste and it is not good.
Many auto tag makers insist on putting both opening and closing
together and you fill in between or else you have what you want
enclosed selected and you order tag wrap. What a fiddle, what
foresight, what toing and froing... If you want to do things in
the order of typing, you open a tag, type out the content or
further instruction for content, close it, nothing beats key
commands (am not saying this replaces the time saving grabbing of
whole structures from other html docs and modifying the contents
etc).
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dorayme
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