I'm just curious, why are we freaking out about this? My CF Studio 5 is working just fine, if need be I can write VTML tags for all the new stuff MX will have and I'm gold. There's very few things I really don't like about CF Studio, so why am I worried if Macromedia wants to update their stuff to handle everything under the sun? I've purchased CF Studio, they're not coming to take it away, I don't wanna use DWMX, so I'm not. seems like a lot of energy has been spent on this.
My $0.02 John Venable Director of Web Architecture, Epilepsy Foundation -----Original Message----- From: Gyrus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 2:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Macromedia Folks: What are you thinking? From: "Robert Everland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Or better yet, Macromedia can give CF back to Allaire, then the newly formed > allaire can give Jrun back to the makers who made that. The suggestion was to bring Nick Bradbury back into the loop in partnership with MM. I think this was in response to a post by Nick (quoted on this list, can't find it now) who seemed - understandably! - dismayed that CF Studio / HomeSite was being relegated to being just part of the DWMX bundle, with dubious prospects for future development (i.e. hand-coders successfully pester MM into making DWMX *passable* as a hand-coding tool, and HS+ is quietly dumped several versions along). Sarcastically misreading this as a suggestion that Allaire - which doesn't exist anymore! - is resurrected doesn't really add to the debate on what is to me, and I guess a lot of people, a crucial issue. Again, I can't see a reason for MM *not* to at least seriously look into the 'Coder MX' idea. With the user base for HS/CFStudio, plus the obvious good input happening in MM with the MX releases, they could develop a coding tool that would: - More than satisfy disgruntled CF hand-coders - More than satisfy a whole load of other coders - Be a serious, non-aligned (or "not-quite-as-aligned-as" ;-) rival to Visual Studio .NET (which I've heard nothing raves about) as an all-round hand-coders web IDE - Make them more money than just bolting stuff onto HS+ which is bundled in with DWMX and probably never used by the majority of DWMX customers I was initially impressed by DWMX, but in the end I'm back with CF Studio. DWMX is just too integrated for it's own good - jack of all trades, master of one (WYSIWYG design). I *would* go and fill in a form at the MM site, but I think there's only a "feature request" form, no "application request" form ;-) - Gyrus ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: http://www.tengai.co.uk play: http://www.norlonto.net - PGP key available ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm 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
