Hey Kreig, Thanks for sharing your ideas here regarding the obsticles some CFers have with Dreamweaver. I've heard a variety of issues mentioned, some of which you touch upon, some of which you don't. The Dreamweaver development team actually has a special group of folks dedicated to working out some of these issues for CFers. You may have heard that at DevCon, there was a special session where CFers discussed their thoughts about Dreamweaver and, Dreamweaver and HS+/CFStudio aside, what their ideal IDE would be like.
I think you'll find that Macromedia continues to work to provide CFers and other developers with the best possible IDEs, be it in HomeSite+ or in Dreamweaver. If you haven't already, please be sure to share your thoughts on this with the Dreamweaver team by submitting your feedback at: http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform?6213=6 The more feedback they get via this form, the more likely they will be able to provide you with a tool you're completely happy with. Thanks! Vernon Viehe ColdFusion Community Manager Macromedia, Inc. ------------------------------ Macromedia Certified Professional CF blog at http://vvmx.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: Kreig Zimmerman [mailto:kkz@;foureyes.com] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 8:14 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Studio MX 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 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
