It is about RDS/FTP - at least from my standpoint. However, I did comment on some of the fact that you're taking a strong coding IDE and turning it into a strong WYSIWYG application with an ok coding IDE. It's not that it ASKS me WHERE I want my local files stored - it's that it TELLS me I HAVE to store them locally just to edit one freakin' file in a site I may not touch again for 2 months. And no, the advantages are not awesome - they're the same as they were in Dreamweaver 4 and I didn't use them then because they were too convoluted and geared towards an HTML-only development environment. I agree, the site feature may be great for HTML authors and it may evolve to be useful for coders - if we all drop our testing, staging, sandbox and development servers and decide we want to keep a "site" for every instance of every application on every server all local on our workstations.
I don't understand what's so hard to see here - we want BASIC ftp/rds service in the File Browser and Open/Save dialog. We don't want YOU to tell us how we have to work - we want to work the way we have been and tell YOU what we want in the IDE we buy from you. It doesn't interfere with hand-coding, it interferes with the simple ability to open a file on a remote server, make a change and save the file back to the same location without keeping a local copy, setting up a site or jumping through any other hoops. Joshua Miller Web Development :: Programming Eagle Web Development LLC www.eaglewd.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (304) 622-5676 (Clarksburg Office) (304) 456-4942 (Home Office) -----Original Message----- From: Vernon Viehe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 5:35 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Macromedia Folks: What are you thinking? I guess I'm missing something here, but I thought we were talking about RDS/FTP in the open/save dialog. I know all this fussing can't be because DW asks you to tell it where you want any local files stored for each site, that's only a few moments to declare, and the advantages are awesome. Once you become familiar with the app, you'll probably see what "goodies" a site definition gets you. It's not all about holding your hand! As far as hand coding, you can hand-code to your heart's desire in Dreamweaver. Does DW prefer you use a site defition? Yes. But I'm not sure how that intereferes with hand-coding. And you don't have to wizard anything! You don't have to use anything pre-canned. Dreamweaver was originally built to appeal to the hand-coder, but with some "canned" stuff (as someone referred to it) to make life easier. That being said, we are including HomeSite+ with Dreamweaver MX. So, in this first encarnation of the merged environments, you have the old IDE at your disposal, and an opportunity to tell us what about DWMX you want changed in the future. Get in there and give it the "college try" and tell us what doesn't work for you using DWMX as your IDE. (And along the way, you might get hooked on it, and decide the site definitions aren't such a bad thing when all is said and done!) http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform?6213=6 Vernon Viehe Community Manager Macromedia, Inc. Online diary: http://vvmx.blogspot.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
