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For the sake of consistency (and speed), I’ve come up with a kind of grading rubric for reviewing the editors. I’m currently going back through the list to update the ratings on past reviews. If you refresh your browsers, you’ll notice the rating now shows up more predominantly. As well, I’m no longer just using increments of 0.5, but rather 0.1. The categories on the side should now reflect this.

I have currently gone back an re-evaluated WebBuilder, TopStyle, TSW WebCoder, Dreamweaver, and TextMate. The rating of Dreamweaver changed the most, based on the criteria I’ve used in my rubric, knocking it down to 3.4 from the original 4.0 I had given it.

Of course, rubric or not, the reviews and ratings are still highly subjective, and the criteria I’ve used are things that are important to me and not necessarily anyone else. However, I think people will still find the ratings useful and perhaps a little more accurate than before.

Here is the list of editors left to re-evaluate. I will cross each out as they are completed.

• Quanta Plus 3.5
• Alleycode HTML Editor
• HTML-Kit 1.0
• BBEdit 8
• skEdit 3.6.1
• AceHTML Pro 6

UPDATE: I had to make a slight change to the rubric, and this affected scores for Textmate, skEdit, and TSW WebCoder, bumping them each up slightly.

UPDATE 2: For some reason my .htaccess file disappeared, so the site was sending a lot of 404 errors. Thank you to John (aka m13b) for letting me know.

UPDATE 3: Friggin’ IE! Didn’t realize the new ratings weren’t showing up in IE6. Discovered this bug for the first time. Should be fixed now. Please refresh if you use IE (or get a better browser).

2 Comments

1. I’ve said that least 1920752 times. The problem this like that is they are just too compilcated for the average bird, if you know what I mean

   Comment by a1920752 — November 18, 2011 @ 8:39 pm

2. This actually answered the drawback, thank you!

   Comment by PorterSchmidt — November 19, 2011 @ 12:13 am

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