OK, before I install, a couple of newb questions?

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:08:37PM +1000, Serg Belokamen wrote:
> Was assuming we were talking about web dev., and I stand by my statment.  

In general, I don't find that Linux is as advanced in
graphical tools as Windows is. It's also been years since
I've used graphical web-development tools. I find Venkman --
the predominant Javascript debugger for Mozilla -- nearly
unusable. It is much less usable than Microsoft Visual
Studio. The last graphical HTML editor I used under Windows
was HoTMetaL, which was years and years ago. FrontPage, for
all the awful MS-specific HTML it produces, did do some nice
stuff (again, years ago) with keeping an entire site
organized. I've not used any tools like DreamWeaver, though
they're pretty much canonical from what I can tell. As for
graphic editing, the GIMP does not compare to Photoshop --
which is to be expected, given the amount of time that
Photoshop has been the tool of choice among graphic
designers. The GIMP is not bad for basic photo editing,
though.

So are you saying, honestly, that Linux software beats
Windows tools for Javascript development, HTML editing, CSS
editing, site management, graphics editing and the like?
Moreover, do you honestly believe what you wrote, that Linux
tools had Windows beat *years* before the tools were
developed for them?

I can half-justify a claim like that: *maybe* Windows tools
aren't really *good*; they're just what people are used to.
But in many cases -- Visual Studio leaps to mind -- Windows
tools really are *better*. Sorry. We have some work to do.

> Dev Studio... it's a Linux software, isn't it (http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/)?

I was talking about the MS tool:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/

Please CC the list from now on.

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Stephen R. Laniel
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