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Originally Posted by mecelec415
I sometimes use Dreamweaver with wine no worries.
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I've seen this same thread - found it searching for the OP's question instead of asking it myself many a times
- over and over again.
It's one of those apples&oranges thangs if you ask me - one of the very few that exist.
Let's see, I attribute the same phenomena to Quickbooks, Adobe, and well that's about it. the only reasons I actually look to wYNd0z3.
Okay... Here's what I've seen, and installed a lot of them, some dont' even work some do, some are much less than what you expect and there's really nothing quite like dreamweaver on this side of the train tracks IMO.
Quanta Plus, Kompozer, NVU - One of those I think (the last time I went on an installing spree to compare and seek one to adopt) is just a fork of the other that stalled and never really worked. While the third I can't remember - all of them got rave reviews.
Iirc, Kompozer is the fork of NVU? and Quanta Plus is a new hopeful? Sorry, but I'm really not going to look again for another six months - Trying to answer for myself, your question (I'm speaking to the OP here), left such a bad taste in my mouth following the time spent on hoping to find one I could settle on...... well, here's what I've come up with.
Dive I think was the first one in the thread who said
Vim -
Do it. I broke down and finally started using it extensively for my existing sites for markup (it's not just for shell scripts anymore) and I can tell you I am not sorry at all.
Just sit down and bite the learning curve bullet. Vim brings things colorfully to life, and the more you use it, the more you will want to - that's not to say there aren't other things which you (and I too) are seeking...
Other things I use daily are Geany and Bluefish. I mention them together because for some reason, Bluefish keeps coming up as an html editor and I don't see it that way at all. I tend to think of it as a lightweight IDE, along with Geany and even Kate, which I use a lot (this month anyway).
It's a little clunky till you get used to it, but Bluefish natively supports sftp which is pretty kewl too.
I'm going to have to take a look at Bluegriffon now, because I haven't before, so I'm interested in what that might reveal.
But frameworks are popular - and by frameworks I mean Drupal and Django - and Vim pops right back up there as an invaluable tool on that front.
Someone mentioned Aptana, and RadRails/Aptana Studio I do have installed - there's a stand alone and an Eclipse version too - I like both, but still, we're not even close to anything like DreamWeaver.
So here's what I do, and/or recommend.
- Virtualbox (You know what to do with it and is conveniently deployed on your local Slackware box)
- ESX and Nomachine (NX) (bascially the same thing as above)
- Wine - someone already mentioned it above, but you only have 32bit support.
wrt Wine, the latest Adobe supermegaliciousbloatwarepak has all the kewl 64bit stuff you're never going to use too, some of which has 32bit counterparts you will automatically be directed to d/l from Adobe, and some which you're just going to be out of luck on, so ESX w/NX or
Winswitch and VirtualBox are good ways to go IMSNHO.
You get a completely native environment which is 64bit capable, and you can pause or turn it off when you don't need it.
If you use VirtualBox, then you can work with a single instance of files/sites and swap back and forth between UNIX and wYNd0z3 seamlessly.
I like Dreamweaver. There's nothing just quite like it, and it's kewl for a LOT of things. And then, like many people's detractions above, you also get all that kewl kruft you're going to have to deal with someday too - but it is one of the very few things (along with quickbooks) that will make me actually fire up a wYND0z3 guest in VB, or VMware - with tools from
FreeNX,
nomachine,
winswitch, or
Xpra, you don't even have to leave Slackware either to use it either
hm... now I'm gonna check out this bluegriffon thingy now....
I hope that helps
Kindest regards,
