> Well, I'm surprised. As I said, I tease DW a lot, but I accept that
> other people use it because it matches their style. Frankly, after
> hearing this, I can't believe _anyone_ would use it. Maybe I'm
> throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but if you can't trust your
> editor to leave your darn code alone, then to me it is 100% worthless.
The first time I tried to use Dreamweaver, a good number of years ago
mind you (prior to the MX brand), I had the unpleasant experience of one
or two of my code templates mangled. So of course I immediately stopped
using it.
I tried it again much later either just before or just after the release
of Dreamweaver MX and have never had that problem since then. The only
thing that bothers me consistently in Dreamweaver 8 is the fact that I
can't prevent it from continually and gratuitously opening the design
view on its own. I had asked about the ability to just disable the
design view (which, in spite of what Massimo and other say about the
impossibility of having Dreamweaver not touch the code), should be
pretty darn simple -- nothing would have to change even _except_ that
the design view button would go away (and presumably it would stop
opening on its own).
The design view actually is the feature that had mangled my code those
years ago the first time I had tried it, but given that it opens on its
own, constantly (dozens if not hundreds of times per day), and it's not
mangled any of my code in the several years since the release of MX, I'd
say it's pretty safe now.
At the office now I have a new annoyance, which is repeated alert boxes
in Dreamweaver to let me know that some inadequately explained Spry
thing isn't the way it ought to be. Generally speaking I'm not so
horribly offended by that, given that I haven't cared for really much of
any of what I've seen of Spry. (Check out my blog -- I've ranted several
times in the past month or so.)
In general I'm happy with Dreamweaver. Last year when I was working in
Portland, I was asked to work in Eclipse and I did for about 6 months,
but I never got to a point where I enjoyed it. All told I found that it
really just made my job more difficult and increased the amount of time
it took me to get things done. At the end of the day, I'd much rather
say that I got some work done, rather than that I figured out something
new (and usually frustrating) about Eclipse. I've heard that they've
improved the search feature, which was one of my bigger complaints at
the time, although I haven't gone back and looked at it since then.
The only thing I had in CFEclipse that I'd like to see in Dreamweaver is
the ability to get a list of methods in a CFC -- which is a very minor
thing for me, certainly a lot less important than the fact that the
multi-file search in Eclipse is untrustworthy (or at least was when I
was using it).
But if I were still having problems with Dreamweaver mangling my code, I
definitely wouldn't be using it every day either. I'd be "toughing it
out" with Eclipse or I'd move back to something else like Homesite+ or
maybe I'd give jEdit another try.
--
s. isaac dealey ^ new epoch
isn't it time for a change?
ph: 617.365.5732
http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog
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