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Subject:    Re: [Quanta] Autofill title, h1, and filename?
From:       Eyolf Ostrem <eyolf () oestrem ! com>
Date:       2005-12-19 0:03:43
Message-ID: 200512190103.44015.eyolf () oestrem ! com
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On Fri 16 December 2005 20:07, Eric Laffoon wrote:
> Hey Andras,
> I'm answering a Dreamweaver question... and I'm being nice. ;-)

I understand that I stepped in the poo... Sorry bout that - I should have 
realized that DW is an F word. At least I didn't mention the REAL wysiwyg F 
word editor...

> And for our next trick... all those cool things we do you didn't know
> about...

That's really my one real gripe with Quanta (apart from frequent crashes, 
which makes the wysiwyg part worthless for me - whenever I try it, I crash 
immediately) but I realize that Quanta may not be to blame for many of them, 
but a buggy version of Qt or KDE): Documentation. The help file is ok, I 
suppose, but hardly more. None of the ten ways to solve my problem I could 
have listed out from the documentation (I think). Also, why isn't there a 
standard forum where one can search for previously reported problems and 
solutions, without having to wade through the archive of this mailing 
list...? I've also tried to find out how to install plugins - heck, how to 
FIND the plugins... 

> > (I never found a way to do it in Dreamweaver - this was my only
> > frustration with what otherwise is the best html editor, imho)
>
> Ha! A comparison to Dreamweaver and then ask us to do what it didn't?
> Relinquish that "best HTML editor" title and give Quanta "best web
> development tool".

Hm. Ok, I'll give it a chance :-) My main reasons to dub DW the best are (1) 
the superb handling of HTML/CSS integration, (2) the sitewide search/replace 
functionality, and (3) the (almost) trouble-free source/wysiwyg editing. 
(1) Why isn't there a docked panel with the relevant CSS for a selected item - 
and ALL the relevant CSS codes, not only the inline ones? True, I can bring 
up the CSS editor from the external CSS file, but that's much more 
cumbersome.
(2) The way one can nest search criteria, add more, remove some, and without 
knowing all the relevant regexes by heart (but use them if one knows them) - 
I've never had a problem with that function in DW, and it has saved me hours 
of work ( have a 1000+ pages site). If Quanta has the same functionality, I 
haven't found it yet.
(3) I never work only in wysiwyg, but my site is mainly plain text, and then 
it is much quicker,e.g., to press enter at the end of a paragraph, and see 
the closing </p> and the next <p> there automatically. In Quanta, all I get 
is a <br />, no matter what I press. (Then again, I haven't dared to try out 
the VPL much, since it always crashes, so maybe it's better than I think).
These are the big issues, then there are the smaller ones, which may be issues 
only because I know DW better than Quanta. I'll give you the benefit of 
doubt. :-)

Anyway - I probably stepped in the poo again... I hope to get more acquainted 
with Quanta too. Sadly, I had to take down my site yesterday, owing to the 
hostile attitude of the American Music Publishers' Association against guitar 
sites, so I probably won't do much on it in the near future. But I'll check 
out your ten different ways.

Eyolf
ex. www.dylanchords.com
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