Yesterday, one of my new co-workers (he just started work about two weeks after I did; he’s been programming forever and was a founding member of the now defunct WaSP) tells me about HTML-Kit. Now, last night, while reading the /. discussion on RMS‘s “We can put an end to Word attachments” editorial, I noticed a reference to HTML-Kit on a thread about demoronizing Word generated HTML (something that we were also discussing at work the a few days prior). Hmm, there’s no point to that, really, but I wanted to say that HTML-Kit kicks so much ass it’s not funny. The cool thing is that I don’t have to re-install HomeSite now. Screw you Macromedia!
BTW, the best suggestions about Word alternatives is using RTF (one of the suggestions was something I actually did while I was at Xerox; instead of paying for an ASP DOC/XLS writer COM module, I actually just generated HTML and gave them the proper MIME/extension type to the client-browser. Vióla! Instant Office compatibility). Also, there’s a nice little solution on how to make people use RTF.
Now, TextEdit on OSX is a great little application for reading and generating RTF’s, which is the one thing that’s missing from both UltraEdit and HTML-Kit.
Peculiar sidenote: Quite a few /. discussions have been uncannily relevant this past week. A short list:
- Are There Limits to Software Estimation?
- Writing Documentation
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome not a Disability
- LDAP Tools – Where are they?
- Making It Personal
It’s weird. Sometimes /. just gets in this awesome groove, and sometimes it’s, I dunno, posts on Aibos.