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HotDog Professional 6.0 (Sausage Software)
Review In Brief
The 'Dog has a new look and a new slogan to match. The guys at Sausage are calling HotDog Professional 6.0, "The Gun Coder’s Solution". I found this description apt as the program sports almost every feature you could imagine in an HTML Editor.
The big "wow" feature that will be immediately apparent to people who have used HotDog Pro before is the new support for some of the most popular scripting languages on the Web. Syntax highlighting, validation, and code completion now include support for JavaScript, CSS, ASP, and VBScript.
Three new dockable Resource Panels have been added to the existing arsenal of ten. The new panels include a style sheet manager, an HTML tree view, and a JavaScript wizard. And with a ton of bug fixes to the FTP component and the indispensable HTML Property Sheet being expanded to display CSS properties, the other ten panels have received plenty of attention in this new release as well.
Finally, one of the big complaints about the previous version of HotDog Pro was the amount of resources it consumed on a Windows 9x System while it was running. Streamlining the program to speed it up and trim it down was one of the main focuses in the development of the new version, and it appears that they have succeeded. The new version consumes an average of only 19% of system resources, with no increase due to the number of open files!
A 30-day trial of HotDog Pro 6.0 is available free from Sausage Software. Give it a try. If you're a "Gun Coder" like me, you'll find it's definitely worth the $99.95 price to register.