Hi Joshua, To keep Homesite+ ; Yep, I think that was the thought from the outset - Dreamweaver will probably always ship with a tool geared toward the handcoder - it is just now that the handcoder's they have are old Studio Users, so to keep *us* happy we get Homesite+ (I think the name had to change to avoid confusion - ColdFusion Studio would have implied that it is only CF when it is obviously more!).
I am sure that people will continue to use ColdFusion Studio though - and simply hand code things like the CFC tags etc. I personally do not use Dreamweaver as a development tool for say ColdFusion - i.e. I do not use it (not trust it) to help me write CFML/cfscript. I prefer to handcode these side of things as DW cannot match the human characteristics of coding. I doubt I ever will use it for this - I use Dreamweaver as a quick and easy way for me to do things that may take me 5-10mins in Studio (which, Phil is the trade-off for having a site defined). I can build a complex CFC in say 3 mins where it may take me 10mins in Studio. Dreamweaver does have a long way before it becomes a robust coding IDE, but its getting there - it has been flagged to the DWET so rest assured its being looked at! As for the opening files via FTP/RDS, I still think that it is bad practice, working directly onto/off a server is not good, especially for files which requite complex parsing, which could be corrupted and lead to zero-length. If you are working on 200+ sites, you need to share the load :-) people make mistakes, especially overworked ones - DW helps. Yes, DWMX is a little hi on the memory side of things; mainly because of the way it is contructed - Javascript and XML; Homesite+ (and Studio) only has about a 4Mb footprint but it only has around 4% of DWMX functionility :-) I have used Studio (and/or a handcoding tool) and Dreamweaver side by side for around 4 years, and I have no intention to stop. Macromedia certainly did not think that Dreamweaver would fill the gap that Studio left, in fact its the opposite, they supply HS+ as they see that Dreamweaver falters in some ares - and probably will never fill. AFAIK the Studio Engineering Team are all hard at work with HS+ and they should be around for HS++ or whatever it will be called!!! I know I sound like a DW-ite and that I am towing the Macromedia "party line", but as a Dreamweaver and Studio user who has seen them evolve over 4 odd years I can understand where its deficiencies arise and where its strengths lie. The problem others are having is that they never used Dreamweaver and were Studio-ites and panicked that Studio was being axed. Rest assured that Macromedia will have an upgrade package for current Studio/Ultradev users etc... which will mean that they will get effectively an upgrade to Studio and see it that they are getting a new version of Dreamweaver to play with when they please! HTH Neil Clark Team Macromedia http://www.macromedia.com/go/team Announcing Macromedia MX!! http://www.macromedia.com/software/trial/. >> Yeah, just keep HomeSite+ alive and I'm sure you'll get a lot less grief from this list. There's no need to remove, discontinue or eliminate that product, it's gold - especially if it now contains all the features from Studio. Joshua Miller ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com 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
