I agree. It seems as though CFMX is targetted at too broad of a range of users. For an IC, or anyone that develops on multiple servers, it's hard to justify the amount of time it takes to define every site. My favorite feature on CF Studio was FTP/RDS. When I wasn't using that, I was using DW and then a separate ftp client to send the files up. I like DW for layouts, etc but I don't think it should be freezing up a pc with 256 meg of ram, and have heard others mention the same issues.
But my 'REAL' question is, has the functionality to work with WebSite Pro been added yet? We, and many others, don't want to switch to a different webserver just to use the new features of MX. I like DW/CF, and I recommend it to my clients and associates, but if I can no longer use it it's hard to justify recommending it. I hope you can add WebSite to the list of platforms it runs on. Sarah Skiba, Web Services Administratror ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owen Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 6:13 AM Subject: RE: Macromedia Folks: What are you thinking? | > IMHO opening a file via RDS and/or especially via FTP is simply bad | > practice - it is an accident waiting to happen. | | I know you Macromedia folks are proud of DWMX, and you should be--it's a | great step forward from Dreamweaver 4. But this kind of statement | really doesn't do anything for your case. Treating us like children | will only antagonize us. Studio was built with the ability to open a | file via RDS and FTP, and we're USING it! *That's* the reason why DWMX | should have it! I've wished many times that TopStyle Pro, for instance, | had the same functionality--because it's useful to me. | | > Dreamweaver is also far more extensible than CF Studio, I have never | > needed to extend Studio - it does exactly what it says on the tin. | | Well, it depends what you mean by extensible. DWMX is NOT extensible in | the way I want it to be: Keyboard shortcuts for snippets, custom toolbar | buttons, custom toolbars. And no, I don't want to edit an xml file just | to add a button. | | > - but NOT fully, and I don't think it ever will - there would be no | > point - Dreamweaver is a great GUI tool, and it is now a | > great code tool - in many flavours. | | There a couple of reasons why there's such an uproar, I think. First, | you've rolled so much of Studio into DWMX that we're afraid that Studio | is going to disappear. This fear is compounded by the fact that we | haven't seen Homesite+ (it's compounded even more by the fact that it's | called Homesite+, which has the implication that it's less than Studio | was--not that it's true, just that there's the implication). | | Second: At least for some of us, we *like* a lot of the features of | DWMX, but we're frustrated that it can't be our single editing tool yet. | I'd like nothing more than to have all of Dreamweaver's power right | there when I needed it. But as it is, I'll still have to be switching | between tools. | | -- Owen | | ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
