Comments on: Review: Quanta Plus 3.5 http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/07/17/review-quanta-plus-35/ Reviews and Discussion of (X)HTML Coding Tools Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:56:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: David Bobb http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/07/17/review-quanta-plus-35/#comment-13908 David Bobb Sat, 31 May 2008 15:12:03 +0000 http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/07/17/review-quanta-plus-35/#comment-13908 <p>I'm an old school HTML geek who still writes HTML/CSS/PHP/Javascript code out by hand. My favorite comparable editors in the past have been Arachnophilia 4.0 (real old school), 1st Page 2000, and Allaire Homesite (which was the best of its era, with project management and ability to inline preview even PHP on a local server). This is hands-down the best and most comparable to Homesite. I've tried Bluefish and several general 'programmer' tools like VIM and eclipse, and this one is very well optimized towards HTML/PHP development. My favorite features here is the way that it manages projects, as well as how the interface is laid out. I usually have the project manager open as a sidebar on the left, showing all of the documents of the current web project on the left, and if I right click on one I can perform various actions such as quick upload and open. Most actions can be assigned hotkeys: for example if I want to upload the document i'm working on, all I have to do is press ALT+SHIFT+U, and the document i'm currently working on is uploaded instantly. Quanta has an ENORMOUS amount of functionality, and like most KDE apps, its all there and ready to be used, but truthfully, you will only use a small amount of it at a time. Fans of lightweight text editors might scoff at having so much functionality/bloat in a web editor, however in my view, the project management and one click uploads make such bloat worth enduring. The only thing this editor seems to lack is the Snippets, as previously mentioned, as well as "Open folder in file browser" that I would like to see in the project manager column.</p> I’m an old school HTML geek who still writes HTML/CSS/PHP/Javascript code out by hand. My favorite comparable editors in the past have been Arachnophilia 4.0 (real old school), 1st Page 2000, and Allaire Homesite (which was the best of its era, with project management and ability to inline preview even PHP on a local server). This is hands-down the best and most comparable to Homesite. I’ve tried Bluefish and several general ‘programmer’ tools like VIM and eclipse, and this one is very well optimized towards HTML/PHP development. My favorite features here is the way that it manages projects, as well as how the interface is laid out. I usually have the project manager open as a sidebar on the left, showing all of the documents of the current web project on the left, and if I right click on one I can perform various actions such as quick upload and open. Most actions can be assigned hotkeys: for example if I want to upload the document i’m working on, all I have to do is press ALT+SHIFT+U, and the document i’m currently working on is uploaded instantly. Quanta has an ENORMOUS amount of functionality, and like most KDE apps, its all there and ready to be used, but truthfully, you will only use a small amount of it at a time. Fans of lightweight text editors might scoff at having so much functionality/bloat in a web editor, however in my view, the project management and one click uploads make such bloat worth enduring. The only thing this editor seems to lack is the Snippets, as previously mentioned, as well as “Open folder in file browser” that I would like to see in the project manager column.

]]> By: Megan http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/07/17/review-quanta-plus-35/#comment-4815 Megan Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:09:44 +0000 http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/07/17/review-quanta-plus-35/#comment-4815 <p>Hinting works in new CSS documents, you just have to change the DTD to CSS.</p> <p>I agree that there are a few weird interface things with Quanta but there are also some things it does better than other editors. I've been using it as my regular editor lately mainly because it does HTML auto-completion the way I want it to (after you type </, not immediately after you finish the opening tag). I also don't know of any other Linux editors that do CSS hinting, but maybe I'll have to look around your site a bit more to find them :)</p> <p>I also find that it works well over SSH connections, which was really important to me. Some editors would crash or refuse to open files directly. (Quanta works better this way when ssh-ing via Konquerer).</p> Hinting works in new CSS documents, you just have to change the DTD to CSS.

I agree that there are a few weird interface things with Quanta but there are also some things it does better than other editors. I’ve been using it as my regular editor lately mainly because it does HTML auto-completion the way I want it to (after you type </, not immediately after you finish the opening tag). I also don’t know of any other Linux editors that do CSS hinting, but maybe I’ll have to look around your site a bit more to find them :)

I also find that it works well over SSH connections, which was really important to me. Some editors would crash or refuse to open files directly. (Quanta works better this way when ssh-ing via Konquerer).

]]> By: jamjammo http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/07/17/review-quanta-plus-35/#comment-243 jamjammo Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:48:52 +0000 http://htmleditors.shadowboxcreative.ca/2006/07/17/review-quanta-plus-35/#comment-243 <p>I've been using 'Cssed Editor' and 'gPHPEdit' on Ubuntu 6.10 for my webdev needs. I rarely use Bluefish.</p> <p>I just downloaded/installed Quanta. It may be a newer version than the last one I tried.</p> I’ve been using ‘Cssed Editor’ and ‘gPHPEdit’ on Ubuntu 6.10 for my webdev needs. I rarely use Bluefish.

I just downloaded/installed Quanta. It may be a newer version than the last one I tried.

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