Re: HTML design tools for the iSeries: which ones work well?

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Evan:

Both TextPad and NoteTab have so much, it's hard to determine what's in one but 
not the other; it'd take weeks of usage for me to do it.

After a few days, I've found a couple very nice TextPad features that I haven't 
seen in NoteTab: (1) syntax libraries and (2) file compare. For programmers, 
these are nice indeed. Keyboard macros also might be a little easier to create 
(record), but they don't seem as powerful as NoteTab.

In NoteTab, I like the document templates feature, the way binary files are 
opened, the paste-board target document feature and the builtin support for 
HTMLTidy and HTML Validator (beyond the standard support for external 
functions); basic editing seems a bit more advanced in NoteTab too, with extras 
such as bullets and outline documents. And I prefer the range of clip libraries 
(e.g., numerous integrated utilities such as a bunch of conversions, a builtin 
scheduler, FTP support) and the clip library language. In fact, I can almost 
see how to get the TextPad syntax libraries to function through a NoteTab clip 
library, possibly the file comparator as well. At the least, I could probably 
get NoteTab to run the TextPad function externally. Of course, there may be 
additional downloadable libraries for TextPad that do as much or more than 
NoteTab.

Unfortunately, I can't make a true comparison because of one more difference: 
NoteTab Light is all I have. NoteTab Standard and NoteTab Pro have more 
features than Light, but Light is complete freeware and that's all I've ever 
needed. There doesn't seem to be a freeware version of TextPad, only an 
evaluation version.

Since you've paid for TextPad, maybe you could do the comparison from the 
opposite view?

Tom Liotta

On Wed, 21 November 2001, Evan Harris wrote:

> I'm a TextPad fan too (even paid for it).
>
> As a point of interest what features has NoteTab got that TextPad doesn't ?
>
> >On Tue, 20 November 2001, Martin Rowe wrote:
> >
> > > Have a look at TextPad - http://www.textpad.com - which is a great text
> > > editor.
> >
> >This looks more like NoteTab than EditPad did. Looks like a much higher
> >percentage of NoteTab features too. Don't see any yet that NoteTab doesn't
> >have though.

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