![]() I don’t think there’s a good term for the tool I need, but I’ll call it a WYSIWYG HTML editor for back of anything better. My work is different from that of a web designer, who mostly works with tags, and it’s also different from the work of a CMS user, who cares so little about tags that markdown language will do. I don’t have to know exactly what the text will look like in a browser. If the browser window is accurate enough to let me navigate by using my eyes instead of a search command, that’s all I need. If the browser window does a poor job of duplicating what I’d see in a real browser, that’s too bad, but it’s also not important. I’ll switch back to the code window anyway if I need to do anything more than the most elementary tag editing. If I can actually edit the text in the browser window, that’s nice, but it’s not really important. Specifically, I want to be able to click something in the browser window and have the insert point go to the corresponding place in the HTML file. I want a tool that will do the scut work and let me concentrate on the stuff that I’m paid to know how to do. Typically I spend most of my time on the first five steps, leaving not much for the sixth. Locate the near-by thing that I actually want to edit. Locate something I need to change in the browser window.Ĭhoose something near-by that’s distinctive enough to search for.įigure out whether the instance I found is the right one, and search again if not. Thus when I revise an HTML document with a typical editor, my work cycle looks like this: This type of file is really impossible to read in the sense that you’d read a book. I spend most of my editing time dealing with text, not tags – but the text is full of tables, lists, headings, anchors, and other stuff that gives the document structure in a browser, but makes it look like word soup in the HTML. I should explain a bit about the type of work I do, so this will make more sense.
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