"Ben Forta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It's that last point that seems to be the crux of this all. And for > those of you who have complained that Dreamweaver MX 2004 does not do > enough for ColdFusion developers, well, I agree. It has improved, and > some of the biggest complaints from ColdFusion users (including the > speed and needing to always define sites) have been addressed. I would > really have liked to have seen more, and as much as I don't like the > fact that the Dreamweaver team dedicated resources to improving support > for ASP.NET and PHP I also understand the economics. This is a business, > Macromedia needs to continue to sell lots of Dreamweaver. The product > has 2,000,000+ users (or something like that) most of whom do not use > ColdFusion, the static page market is saturated and they need to go > after where the big bucks are, targeting PHP and ASP.NET users make
Let me just jump and say that while the list of new features in DW 2004 target to CF developers is pretty small, the equivalent list for ASP.NET is almost shorter (DW/.NET guys are upset all over the places!). Things are just a little bit better for PHP, but that's only because PHP in DW MX was really missing a bunch of pieces (mostly issued as extensions inside the DRKs) so the "new" PHP features listed on MM website are just those neccesarely to bridge the gaps left with DW MX. It's not like CF got less, the whole release just heavily focused on CSS and other things that aren't related to *any* specific language. In a certain sense DW went back to its roots. For the vast majority of DW userbase (including me) the new CSS editing/rendering alone are worth the upgrade > So is the new Dreamweaver the ColdFusion aware IDE I wanted? Nope. Is it > a useful tool? Yes. It is an improvement over Dreamweaver MX, even for > us CFers? Yes. Is it good enough to be the exclusive editor for > ColdFusion developers? I'd say that depends on the developer, for > experienced developers I'd say no. Is it compelling enough for Studio > and HomeSite users to abandon those tools entirely for it? No. Does it > have any value at all for ColdFusion developers? Absolutely. > > I am at least thankful that HomeSite has been given a new lease on life. > HomeSite 5.5 is not a major upgrade, but it does add some important > enhancements some of which I may want to use Ben, I can't explain how I 100% agree on *every* single word you wrote above You expressed my very own feelings so well! Not being an english native speaker can be frustrating and I am glad you managed to summarize things in a way that I wasn't able to do so far ---------------------------- Massimo Foti Certified Dreamweaver MX Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer http://www.massimocorner.com/ ---------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
