TidBITS finds hand-coding HTML still gets great favor from Web developers:
It’s therefore rather amusing to recognize that after 14 years of such editors – FrontPage, PageMill, GoLive, Dreamweaver, and many others, with few surviving the hecatomb – hand coding still rises to the top as the preferred method of building pages. Khoi Vinh, design director at The New York Times, noted in a recent reader Q&A segment on the Web site, “It’s our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to ‘hand code’ everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results.” (GoLive, by the way, bit the dust today.)
Admittedly, I’ve relied on the nifty WYSIWYG editor for posts to NTFHT, but it does feel a bit cheap. So perhaps I’ll get back into the swing of things with hand-coding. (via @PatrickRuffini)
