News - Adobe launches Edge Tools and Services HTML5-centric suite

[HEXUS]

"New tools and services for a beautiful, modern web"

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[howdee]

OMG more tools for the unsavvy that will make programmers' lives even more miserable endlessly cleaning code (now in three flavours = HTML+CSS+JS) after overly enthusiastic web designers using "WYSIWYG" tools!! Cue Queen's Bicycle Race LOL

[blokeinkent]

So where does this leave Dreamweaver and the poor sods who have just shelled out for Flash in CS6 suites?

[brasco]

Not many will have shelled out for the CS6 suites with the subscriptions on offer, it'd be crazy!

Tried Edge preview out last year, and yep usual issues like howdee mentions, code was a mess. Maybe they've updated that but I'm skeptical, will get it later today and test.

[AGTDenton]

Adobe Typekit
Provides an interface for searching and purchasing commercial premium fonts for use on the web.

DLC taking over the world.

Best web editor I used was HomeSite+ cracking application.

[howdee]

Best web editor I used was HomeSite+ cracking application.

I'm slightly ashamed to admit it's still Notepad for me (or any simple text/code editors really). I also found "1st Page 2000" rather useful back in the days when I was still a HTML newb. It was, to my knowledge, the only near-WYSIWYG HTML editor back then that didn't try to be smarter than its user, had useful preview options, came with tons of useful JS/DHTML/whatnot applets all neatly categorized (with external links), and was absolutely free, too. Really similar to the HomeSite you mentioned, with a bit more polish and features, and it didn't try to auto-correct my code without a warning. I learned tons out of it and would still easily recommend it to anyone that doesn't have the patience or knowledge to code manually, regardless of its age. To all the rest - the pros among us - I recommend they find themselves a simple code editor with code highlighting, auto-indentation, and anything else they'd find essential for comfortable work and "come to terms" with HTML5 on their own. There's plenty of extremely good guides out there, all of them free. Paying a thick premium for half-baked products... I leave that to Mac users. They can stare at nice but non-standard windows and scroll-bars for hours (a bit like my cat LOL) and see them as a valuable bonus even if the app itself doesn't do much else but provide idiot-proof user interface to designing "features" we'll all tire of before anyone learns to implement them properly (read: iron out the bugs).

[SineWave]

So how many hard disks one needs to install this "miraculous apps"? Will 1Tb suffice? LOL Sorry I just cannot help myself when it comes to all these new "CS" branded Adobe bloat... Adobe and sarcasm are the same thing for me. They cannot make a simple program like Flesh player work properly so how can one expect such behemoth apps like this to work properly? The more code there is, the more bugs there is. It's a simple equation. I'm staying away from their apps as far as possible.

I completely agree about Notepad. That's what I use as a helper app to refine the code.

Cheers!