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Overview
Artifact ID: | b785f1b067fc799351b43cd13e31b7597c566cd8 |
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Page Name: | Deprecation |
Date: | 2020-05-13 11:12:24 |
Original User: | tinus |
Mimetype: | text/x-markdown |
Next | 203f2f1a19ba9734b151c39dfc6049631a8dec28 |
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Deprecation
As of 2020-05-10, I've decided to no longer spend time updating this plugin.
Why?
It's been quite a while since I did any significant work on it. Here's a few reasons for that:
- No time. There's many reasons for this, not least my children. Life goes on.
- It was written in Delphi. At work, we've moved away from Delphi (to C# and other languages). For me, this means it takes more time to get into this plugin's code.
- It uses Internet Explorer's engine, which is becoming more and more obsolete, and shouldn't really be used anymore.
- I don't use Notepad++ as often. For many scenarios, other software such as Visual Studio Code or Notepad3 have become my go-to editor. Better looking, cross-platform; and Notepad++ has had a few breaking changes that made upgrading a pain. I do still use it occasionally, but not for any serious web development.
What now?
As long as the plugin works, it works. But if something in a future version of Notepad++ changes, it may not work anymore.
For web development, I now use Visual Studio Code, which sports various extensions that provide functionality similar to this plugin, and more! Some of them even support debugging the preview.