A Vista Question For Web Developers
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Gnomie Reese writes:
Hi, Chris! I have two quick questions for you — maybe you can help. I bought a new laptop with Vista yesterday and am having a major problem that I never, ever experienced in XP. Basically, I’ll open and edit an HTML or SHTML (or really any text) file in Notepad and save it… and suddenly all of the formatting disappears. The moment I save, the ENTIRE file just bunches up into one solid paragraph.
I can’t edit my Web site this way… most of my files are huge and I need the appropriate spacing and line breaks in there; making changes is completely impossible. With the few files I’ve tried, I’ve had to take an hour or two to go back, find, and redo ALL of the line breaks, spacing, etc.
If you (or any of your readers) can please tell me whether or not a simple setting is the cause of this, and if I can fix it easily enough, it would really mean the world to me. I need to update my sites and can’t do it if new saves are going to cause all of the code to run together like that. Also, for the first few hours with this new laptop, there was no problem. Then suddenly, every time I go to Gmail, it loads the page and then instantly disappears, leaving me with only the background. I have to right click on the page and refresh for my inbox to show up properly. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
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2 Comments
anon
April 2nd, 2009
at 4:03am
why would you be using notepad to edit html pages or what ever code pages? Get yourself a decent IDE and stop pissing around. But to answer your question I’ve been using Vista exclusively for web dev since it came out and have had no issues with formating of pages.
Talia
August 24th, 2009
at 4:59am
I am having the same issue your having. The werid thing is i had a laptop with vista with no problems…I just got my new emachine with vista home basic and NOTHING i save stays formatted. It all lumps into one huge paragraph. So if anyone dose know a solution I am sure there are plenty more of us out there that would love some help with this issue.
As far as anon goes A LOT of web editors still choose to use notepad. There isn’t a thing wrong with that. And I’m sure since you’ve been using other programs for formatting your pages you wouldn’t have the issues we are having. So please don’t put us down for it since you obviously cant help with the problem.