I prefer DW, but I don't have a copy, so I use Eclipse, which can be slow and buggy a lot of the time. I have more times than I should where I am coding and Eclipse does something or jumps around and I am just sitting there wondering what the hell just happened.
Eric /*-----Original Message----- /*From: Joel Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /*Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:33 PM /*To: CF-Talk /*Subject: Re: Best CF editor? /* /*Yeah, WYSIWYG is more or less unusable for professional web design because /*doing such on a professional level requires intimate involvement in the /*code and has to transcend drag-n-drop of simplified components. That /*being said, I think the WYSIWYG is good enough in Dreamweaver CS3 to more /*or less get a good idea of what is going on rendering-side to save /*incessant IDE-browser switching. Of course, there will still be plenty of /*this anyway, but the Dreamweaver as an WYSIWYG can help reduce a bit of /*it. /* /*>On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Phillip Vector /*><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /*>> Dreamweaver is nice... But I think allot of people (myself included) /*>> got scared away from it awhile back when the WYSIWYG editor made code /*>> that was... just unreadable.. Kind of like Front Page *shutter* /*>> /*>> Has Dreamweaver improved enough to give another look at? /*> /*>I've been using DW since the first MX release as a code editor. I /*>don't go into design view (I never went into it in CFStudio either). I /*>turn off most panels and toolbars and work with just the files panel /*>and code window (I'm a keyboard shortcut junkie). It's brilliant - /*>extensible, customisable, powerful. Code hinting for CF, HTML, CSS and /*>JavaScript. SVN in the new version although I used an extension for /*>SVN support in CS3. FTP and SFTP out of the box. /*> /*>People used to say "it's too slow compared to HomeSite/CFStudio" but /*>these people have now moved to Eclipse, which I find performs /*>unacceptably slowly, even on a high spec machine with plenty of RAM. /*>In fact, there's a real Eclipse gestapo that try to imply that you're /*>not a real coder unless you're using it, which annoys me no end. /*> /*>Believe it or not, all of the front end developers I know, who work in /*>HTML, CSS and JavaScript only, spend most of their time in code view /*>too - WYSIWYG is not an effective development tool for creating any /*>kind of site, imho. /*> /*>-- /*>Kay Smoljak /*>business: www.cleverstarfish.com /*>coldfusion: kay.smoljak.com /*>personal: enterthegoatlady.com | heapsbad.com /* /* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:306460 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
