Joshua, hopefully this will fill you in...1st of, dont confuse DW and UD as
the same product they are not. They may have the same functionality to a
certain degree butw where DW stops, UD takes over in the Database sections.
>>1. Notepad has all the features of the Dreamweaver/UD code editor
(sans-color-coding)
Duh, so has M$ Word, but thats not the point is it? The code editor is
more of a tweaker of code (if you dont write by hand already) It is designed
to be simple so that you try and keep the hardcore coders in the DW/UD
environment.
>>2. No tag insight
Not true. It has got a tag insight, well not the lazy 'fill the rest of my
string in as I can't be arsed' functionality but it has the Xcellent
O'Reilly reference built into it, which IMHO is far better that a tag
insight as it gives you much more info. A good learning tool if nothing
else - you would be surprised how many poeple still dont know browser
indifferences.
>>3. No document tree window for editing multiple docs from the same editor
>>interface.
Well if you have been using DW from ver.1 you would know that this was
a point raised and was decided to keep - a good percentage of DW/UD is done
in Javascript which allows for its excellent exstensibility and I would
assume, but dont quote me, that it has something to do with that - i.e.
seperate calls to the DOM to render pages. I have not seen much of a
difference in development time though, as I am equally at home with both
prods.
>>4. Limited Shortcuts in the editor view
What do you mean? the program is packed full of keyboard shortcuts!!
You can move them, define your own - whatever!!! thats the beauty of it - or
do you want pretty pictures to guid you through the app? :-)
>>1. Built in XML parser that recognizes standard XML formats (doc book,
RDF,
etc.) and will output XML files into CF/ASP/JSP pages using CFFILE or
comparable functions in the other languages.
Wow, why not add a wizard which will do all the work for you and you
still get paid :-) <LOL> some things have to be learnt my man.....
>>2. Built in XSL parser - assign XML elements CSS properties in a visual
environment.
Again, easy tiger why not ustilise the MSXML DOM to extend XML support the
tools are present.?
>>3. Support for Fusebox and other CF-related methodologies (CFOBJECTS,
etc.)
Will never happen, not by Macromedia, unless they become 'standards'
supported by Allaire - which we all know will never happen - they have
Spectra now.
>>By the way, what happened to UltraDev 2.0 and 3.0? Can you really just
jump
>>from 1.0 to 4.0 in one version? Sounds a little Netscape-ish to me :)
Well, the decision was made to use the version 4 tag as they were basically
bolting on UD2 into Dreamweaver 3. To avoid confusion of realeasing
Dreamweaver 4 and Dreamweaver Ultradev 2. So they bumped up the number to
4. It is not Crapscapish by any means, DW comes in 2 flavours, Dreamweaver
& Dreamweaver Uldradev (DW in steroids)
HTH
Neil
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