I use Eclipse PDT for my development though. It doesn’t “do” anything for you, but it’s got syntax highlighting and it has some error checking as well.

Funny how a discussion of “which browser sucks” became “which editor is best”

Did it ever occur to you that you can code without a compiler? I doubt anyonewho regularly codes in JavaScript or Perl, etc, would say “hey, no, I don’t use a ciompiler and therefore I’m not a coder?”

My brother and I work together. He does the compiling side and I do the web side. And although he is of a level that he was teaching his lecturers at Uni, he’s never looked down his nose at me as a ‘mere web designer’. And for good reason.

I have OCD, I can understand how frustrating it is for you AND her. Sadly, there’s no quick-fix for this one.

When I started, the choices were basically IE4 or Netscape (can’t remember the version …) and the two were highly incompatible. Now I code for Firefox and throw in fixes as needed for anything else. IE, to me, is for people that don’t know any better *ducks*

That said, yes, I saw the funny side of this one (it just bothers me when people who program using C++ or whatever look down their noses at us web designers)

Ofcourse, getting it to work in any browser is all a matter of how much you have worked with that browser. You’ll find IE works alot better with .NET websites, it’s just a matter of fact, but you’ll find that a coder who started coding for IE first would spend less time coding for IE, but would find Firefox doesn’t work.
However, I first started learning HTML in Firefox, so I can see the funny side of this.

But in the real world, where a real web developer tries to get it to work AND look good on as many browsers as possible, there is a lot of debugging required as you try to compensate.

Yes, I do laugh at those who whip something up in Dreamweaver, etc, and call themselves web designers. That’s like putting an air freshener in your car and calling yourself a mechanic

If you know a bit of coding, you would know how to work around it while coding your stuff so it is right the first time instead of debugging so much.

I still see too many sites saying ‘this site works only in FF’ and such.. seriously, if you can’t code, don’t do it.

Just because we don’t use a compiler doesn’t mean we’re not coders. At least those of us who use raw code, anyway.
Dreamweaver does not a coder make (this goes for flash, frontpage, and all those other WSIWYG’s too …)

IE sucks!!! Didn’t even add PNG’s until version 7, and being Miscrosoft, the higher the version, the crappier (Vista being a prime example of MS’s idea of ‘upgrading’)

if you’re ignorant and want to design purely for one browser only.. and also choosing IE, well if the user is anything like me, you’ll have alot of people refusing to view your site. I don’t load up IE just to view someones website when they choose not to make it work for anyone who prefers a better browser than IE.

fixed it for you

Direct IE users to a .png of the properly rendered web page with a link above it that says ’site not behaving as expected? Get a real browser.’