What tools do you use when developing html?

Question

What applications/services do you guys used when building websites/web applications with web technologies? Windows? Mac?

Answer 1

SO: Linux

Editors: Gedit (with a couple of plugins) or vim (if editing something remotely)

Browser: Firefox (with Webdeveloper and Firebug)

Answer 2

eclipse with pdt or notepadd++ on windows gedit on Linux

all kept in subversion or git repository. the deployment is handled by a phing build script. that optimizes and deploys the site.

Answer 3

• Linux Ubuntu Desktop Jaunty
• Firebug
• FireCookie
• Pixel Perfect
• Web developer
• Zend Studio
• Subversion
• VirtualBox for testing with IE
• W3C Validator
• Webstandards.org for getting (x)html templates

Answer 4

Browser:

• Firefox: Firebug
  • Firequery (for better jQuery debugging)
  • Webdevlopper
  • Pixel Perfect
  • Tiny HTML Validator
• Chrome:
  • The DEV tools for measuring my loading times.

Editor/Subversion:

• Coda (Panic/macos)

Answer 5

I use Visual Studio since our back-end development is based on .NET platform.

VS offers syntax highlighting and also intellisense for both XHTML and CSS which is super handy.

Apart from that:

• Firefox with Firebug and Dev Toolbar
• IE8 with Dev Toolbar
• IETester to quckly test stuff on IE6,7
• Virtual Machine to run CLEAN versions of IE6 and IE7 for hardcore debugging (say what you want, no tool will ever render website 1:1 the way original, virgin browser does)
• Opera, Safar, Chrome
• Notepad++ if my too lazy to wait for VS to load

Answer 6

I use dreamweaver as a sort of combination text editor with tag highlighting ability and integrated ftp. I just like the way it feels, I know its overkill and don't need/use the majority of its features. When just throwing a single page together or quick editing, I use a text editor like notepad++ or gedit and filezilla. I like the post with the firebug suggestion though, I might break out of my comfort environment and try the "everything from a browser" approach :D

Answer 7

ASP.net and Adobe Flex Builder for Client Development. Flash and Microsoft Expressions 2 for Images, Animations, Labels etc ... C#,Java Script, Action Script is used for Client and Server side scripting. JAVA is used for middle ware/Web Services. Fiddler for script debugging and HTTP traffic checking. SoapUI for web services Testing.

We targeted Firefox and IE for Browsing. Windows XP is widely Used OS.

Answer 8

I usually use some combination of TextMate and Chrome's developer tools for my personal projects, or Eclipse if it's a Java app.

Though generally there's relatively little HTML coding being done, it's generally a lot of Python/Django or Java/GWT and just enough HTML to glue it together.