OT: PHP

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by SpaceBadger:
(Why on earth would anyone want their word-processor to act like a browser? More MS stupidity, trying to make every program do everything, rather than letting each one do its own thing and do it well! )

I agree that it wasn't implemented very well, but the idea there isn't to make WORD into a browser. It's to allow you to edit the html with a WhatYouSeeIsWhatYouGet interface. Some people, mainly those without any knowledge of html or interest in learning it, greatly prefer being able to edit web pages in this manner. My biggest problem with using Word to edit html is all the crap code it sticks in there. Meta tags out the wazoo.

I am pretty sure that Word 2000 and later will let you look at the html in text view won't it? That should give you what you want if it does.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by SpaceBadger:
I hate Word 2000. I've been looking every place I can think of for the install CD for my good old Word 97, but can't find it. Where do you get EditPlus2?

SpaceBadger

http://www.openoffice.org is a good replacement for MS Office. It has a Version of Word, Excel, Power Point and IIRC Word Art (or something like that). It is free, and open source. And a lot smaller than MS Office is to boot. It can open and save all MS file formats, plus dozens more. And the best part? No @&#!*! paper clip to harrass you!

So now I have to use Wordpad, at least until I get around to finding an install CD for Word 97, at which time I will uninstall Word 2000 and replace it with the old one. (I also hate all of the autoformatting junk in Word 2000 - what a time-waster, on the very rare occasions that I use it instead of Wordpad I have to keep undoing stuff that the &^$^%#& program goofs up by guessing what I would want rather than just doing what I say. )

You can actually disable all of that in the settings...

[ November 07, 2003, 17:55: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[tesco samoa]

Come on Paper Clip is BOB.

[Fyron]

You can get EditPlus2 at: http://www.editplus.com/

[Fyron]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
Come on Paper Clip is BOB.

[SpaceBadger]

Sorry, Ragnarok, didn't intend to hijack the PHP thread...

OTOH, I expect you -will- be needing a good text editor...

Thanks for the info on EditPlus2 and OpenOffice, y'all.

It has been awhile, but I remember spending some time trying to figure out how to get Word 200 to just let me see the HTML as plain text, and it would not do it unless I bought some sort of add-on for Word - don't recall the exact name, but it was something to let Word function as an HTML editor - without that, it would not let you edit in either plain-text or WYSIWYG, it would just interpret the HTML and display the result.


SpaceBadger

Gee, these smilies are so much fun!

[ November 07, 2003, 20:41: Message edited by: SpaceBadger ]

[Fyron]

Umm... what Version of Word 2000 do you have? It normally functions as a WYSIWYG right out of the box...