> The Unicode issue existed when 5.5 was released, it is not a > flawed comparison, it is demonstrative of my point about > 'commercial' support, I used it because it happened to be > on my mind.
While that might be true, Homesite is still essentially a legacy product. What exactly is new and improved in Homesite 5.5? > I have submitted feature requests, the challenge is that DW > is not a coder tool, it is a designer tool. They have made > significant changes in the design area of the IDE, very nice > changes to be sure. But there's been marginal real focus on > the needs of the hand coder. I think this distinction between "hand coder" and "designer" is part of the problem here. As programming environments mature, it's natural to spend less time writing code and more time using visual tools. If you're a Windows programmer, you don't write the lines of code that figure out how things will appear on the screen, you draw them out using Windows Forms from within Visual Studio. You then write code as appropriate to bind to events that occur to the objects within your forms. Does that make you a designer, or a hand coder? In my opinion, this is what Dreamweaver is becoming - a tool more like Visual Studio than like emacs or vi. Further, I think that this is a good thing. But in my case, I'm not much of a designer, and I still find Dreamweaver to be a productive environment for writing code. Case in point - the fantastic find and replace dialog. There are certainly things that I don't like about DW, and things that I'd like to see added, some of which are in Homesite, but overall I think it's a good editor. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:190300 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
