IMHO it does compare. The CSS support is also excellent, it doesn't seem to suffer the bug I reported in Eclipse (ages ago!) whereby the CSS syntax of font:11px/14px Verdana; get formatted to: font: 11px/ 14px Verdana; (notice the space) The laptop I currently use (issued through work) handles Netbeans far better than Eclipse. My personal Mac Pro is responsive in both. After 'playing' with Netbeans more I have come to the following conclusions: 1) Team Synchronise ROCKS! in Eclipse. Netbeans offers no comparison. 2) Javascript editing is far better in Netbeans than in PDT 1.0.3 3) Loving the colour highlight in explorer tree in Netbeans to show changed/modified files 4) Collaboration ROCKS! in Netbeans. Loving OpenFire as well. 5) Netbeans plugin installation is far easier than Eclipse. NetBeans provides you with a list of (156) plugins available to install. 6) NetBeans 5 seconds to load/start, Eclipse 7 seconds (on the laptop) 7) I removed Zend Studio Beta in favour of Eclipse + PDT as it was soooooo slow. I am now using Eclipse + PDT for the Team Synchronise and NetBeans for code development (for the time being). OK, you could argue that PHP support is not so good in NetBeans but it all comes down to using the tool that fits. NetBeans gives a PHP developer everything he needs, as does Eclipse + PDT. That leaves personal preference as the deciding factor. As with everything in life, it is nice to have a choice!
_____ From: Michael Tramontano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 November 2008 19:24 To: Robert Castley; fw-general@lists.zend.com Subject: RE: [fw-general] Netbeans IDE with PHP How's the css support ? Does it allow you to write custom file extension configurations ? Bet it doesn't compare to Zend studio though ! =P Thanks, Mike Tramontano From: Robert Castley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:45 AM To: fw-general@lists.zend.com Subject: [fw-general] Netbeans IDE with PHP Just found this: http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/index.html <http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/index.html> It is a 24Mb download (compared with Eclipse PDT 130Mb) with full PHP, Javascript etc support. The javascript editor is excellent along with code completion etc. The PHP side of things is also excellent. One of the coolest things I have found it the Collaboration plugin. I have setup our own Collab server using OpenFire - http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/index.jsp <http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/index.jsp> The plugin allows you to share files and edit them. This could become my IDE of choice for developing PHP applications! - Robert ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security Service and the Macro 4 plc internal virus protection system. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security Service and the Macro 4 plc internal virus protection system. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security Service and the Macro 4 plc internal virus protection system. ________________________________________________________________________
