Whether you’re a professional web developer or someone who maintains their own website(s), chances are you do most of your work on a desktop or laptop. Which makes sense, seeing as how there are any number of great web development tools for various operating systems.
But what happens if you need to make some changes to a site or design and are away from that desktop or laptop? And what do you do when you’re using a tablet or a device like a Chromebook? Since you’re developing for the web, there’s no reason why you can’t turn to the web for help.
It’s worth checking out one of the number of web-based code editors out there. They range from simple editors to full-blown integrated development environments (IDEs).
Let’s take a look at four online editors for Web developers.
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Flame wars over one’s choice of editor are a regular occurrence on almost all the tech mailing lists that I subscribe to. In fact, in my opinion, the amount of time and energy that is spent on debating this topic can be easily spent on researching the feature set of a perfect editor that would fit everyone’s needs.
For web designers and developers, it can get a little hectic sometimes trying to edit strings of codes. This is true especially if you’re not using any apps such as Dreamweaver, it can be hard to find errors or problems that may appear in our codes, thus the expression finding a needle in a haystack many times is completely understated. Luckily a software such as HTML Code Export has been developed. This app allows you to open up an html document to edit it, export it (in over 10 different formats), upgrade your old html file to xhtml, or easily convert your html document to PDF, RTF, images, and other formats.