>
> anybody else? I've got a pitch to make (or more accurately...i've got to
> decide whether or not i've got a pitch to make) :)
>
> Thx,
> Charlie
GOOD
Improved CSS.
"Siteless" editing. You can just browse a drive in DW or point to and browse
an ftp server without defining a "site" with all the junk that entails. Of
course, you miss out on the check-in/check-out, but that's a mixed blessing
anyway.
- Word importing is WAY better. Whether doing an import or just
copy/pasting, it will make much cleaner code than word does and it will
convert images too. The image conversion isn't great, but for a lot of my
stuff I don't care. There's also XML, tabular data and Excel importing.
BAD
I have mixed feelings about the CSS support. The design-view rendering is
MUCH better. Not always right, but much better than before.
Highlighting text and applying a style doesn't always behave like you
expect. It often grabs the "wrong" tag or it wrap the selected text in a new
span. Get used to using the tag picker at the bottom of the window.
I have had problems in design view where selecting and cutting a piece of
text, almost always in a table but once in a list, cut either the whole
table or list even though it wasn't highlighted. In one case a similar thing
happened in code view which just floored me.
I miss a lot of the Homesite+ shortcuts like easily commenting CF code.
The shortcut bar is more awkward now than in MX, IMO. It seems like I'm
always on the wrong category of shortcuts and have to switch. But some I
don't understand why they are where they are. Really, I don't understand why
the few things under "html" aren't under "common".
MX2004 feels slower than MX. Even with the update.
Kevin Graeme
University of Wisconsin-Extension
Cooperative Extension Technology Services
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