Web Development on Linux


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I have been experiementing with linux a lot and i can safely say that i enjoy it and would like to eventually switch to it completely on my home computer. The problem is that i do quite a bit of web development on the side and I have not found anywhere where they make dreamweaver for linux. What do most web devlopers use on linux...and is there maybe a way possible to emulate dreamweaver on linux?

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If you want to ge rid of the crutches (just kidding) and go full text-mode, then quanta, bluefish, and screem are all very nice editors. I prefer bluefish, myself.

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NVU is EXCELLENT. I actually prefer it to Dreamweaver now.

Actually, although it seems to do CSS nicely, it also puts in unnecessary tags. Not sure how that compares to Dreamweaver.... How clean is Dreamweaver's code?

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Actually, although it seems to do CSS nicely, it also puts in unnecessary tags.  Not sure how that compares to Dreamweaver....  How clean is Dreamweaver's code?

It's not as pretty as what someone who writes perfect structural markup does by hand, but I think it does a very nice job.

It's definately not Frontpage! :p :D

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It's not as pretty as what someone who writes perfect structural markup does by hand, but I think it does a very nice job.

It's definately not Frontpage! :p  :D

has it changed it's code view? Last time I checked it out, everything was left justified without even any syntax highlighting

I'm shocked there hasn't been a vi smartass in this thread yet :rolleyes:

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has it changed it's code view? Last time I checked it out, everything was left justified without even any syntax highlighting

I'm shocked there hasn't been a vi smartass in this thread yet :rolleyes:

I forgot about that other pet peeve: syntax highlighting!

Doing a "view source" in Mozilla/Firefox shows highlighting, but not NVU (though, I haven't checked their "bug/requested features" list to see if this is something that they will be adding). It sure makes reviewing the code much easier. :yes:

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I recently downloaded Bluefish and it's ok but I've found the highlighting to be buggy at best, especially with mutliple line comments. It's like it won't refresh the highlighting if you insert a multiple line comment...I don't know. I just wish the standard Gnome text editor would highlight php for me...that's all I'd need.

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I recently downloaded Bluefish and it's ok but I've found the highlighting to be buggy at best, especially with mutliple line comments. It's like it won't refresh the highlighting if you insert a multiple line comment...I don't know. I just wish the standard Gnome text editor would highlight php for me...that's all I'd need.

for php make sure you are doing the standard

<?php

       // comment 1
       // comment 2
?>

it works for me:?

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