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Originally Posted by edgeprod
Not so much weird as inefficient. It's like the quaint shop owner who still figures out your total by hand -- a cash register would be a more efficient choice.
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I'll race you. I think it's more about learning curve. Kind of like WYSIWYG versus a text editor.
I used to have a habit of racing WYSIWYG users versus a decent text editor. For a simple page
like Google's home page I could finish duplicating it in a text editor just as the big WYSIWYG
finished loading.
The real advantage to clicking Tools -> Insert -> Div as opposed to just typing
<div>, we found, is that the guy with the text editor has to actually remember
how to code. Typing five characters is a hell of a lot faster and more efficient, though.
Similarly you can click through your IDE add a CSS declaration and you don't have to
remember that it's called font-face. Typing font-face at 50 words per minute is quite
bit more fast and efficient, though. It just has a learning curve.
That's been my experience over fifteen years, anyway. At this point I don't, and wouldn't,
use an IDE except
maybe for some GUI design tasks. For creating a Windows GUI, it's
nice to click on "button", drop it on the form, right click, set it's properties, then click the
button to set it's action. Still if I did that every day I bet I could do it faster with a text
editor then all that clicking and right clicking and selecting each property.