OK. Enough of the sermonizing as to why people are using this that and the other; why coders are coders and designers are designers and the twain shall never meet; and all sort of idiotic posturing.
There are THREE (3) core reasons that people whom have been in use of ColdFusion Studio have as a problem with Dreamweaver MX: 1) It is SLOOOOOOW. Slow, as in molasses-slow. I have a PIII/866 at work, 256MB RAM, and it hangs up and plays spin-the-cursor constantly on me. This is ludicrous. What is the recommended platform? PIV+512MB RAM? What kind of test platform were you using, Macromedia? 2) Text-searching. When you are doing coding, you need good and fast find/replace, and most importantly, REGEX searching. Dreamwaver MX has piss-poor support for these, eons below CF Studio's functionality. 3) Buggy. Need I say any more? I don't care whether you use Mac or PC, there is too many bugs that come a-cropper at the worst possible moments for Dreamweaver MX to be useful for any sort of truly useful productivity. Add on top the aforementioned issues, and CF Studio (on PC) is the way to go (still). As a sop, however, I will give one absolute positive: 1) Site Management. This is a neat feature. Unfortunately, it does straight time-stamp comparison instead of byte-length; unfortunately, it too is buggy; however, it si just about the only thing I use Dreamweaver MX for. Improve it slightly, and we are yours forever. PS What exactly is the purpose of Contribute? Is that FrontPage MX? How useful is it to any non-technical people--really? What is the point? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
