No, Aptana does not have a design-time WYSIWYG view - frankly, I find
the Design View rather worthless with CF projects, especially when
dealing with dynamic data. Using a tool like Firebug or any of the many
Firefox web development plugins tends (for me) to yield better results
in terms of working with display code and fine-tuning it. The rendering
engine DW uses for it's WYSIWYG view is also inconsistent with how the
modern browsers display.
I forgot to mention that Aptana uses CF Eclipse as a plug in to enable
CF code formatting and function reference. I don't want to mislead
anyone into thinking Aptana is a native CF IDE.
For what it's worth, I've always been a die-hard Adobe/Dreamweaver fan,
but CS3's bloat really started hampering my development at work, and the
Mac version's even worse at home - Aptana offers a cross-platform,
consistent experience for me, that is much faster and responsive when
working - my only lament is the lack of database integration that I
liked from Dreamweaver - not being able to drag and drop table and
column names though has forced me to become more familiar with the data
I work with, and as a result, I think, a better coder overall. Less
reliance on Design View as well helped push me in that direction.
James E. Thomas
Baker Botts L.L.P. Web Developer
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Ajas Mohammed
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [houcfug] Re: Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 - 3-4 user license
Thanks, I will check Aptana. I remember I had that plugin
installed in Eclipse for CSS/JavaScript.
I will check on this myself, but do you happen to know if Aptana
has design view like DW? Honestly, thats the only reason, we are stuck
with DW. I started using Eclipse long time back and I just love it. It
just that sometimes, design view can be of so much help.
Thanks.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:52 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I would recommend looking at other IDEs such as Aptana
(www.aptana.com) that work quite well with all flavors of CF (even
BlueDragon), and comes in both a free and a commercial version. Adobe's
Dreamweaver has (in my opinion) become bloated, and too
resource-intensive. Unless the upcoming CS4 edition addresses some of
these issues, then I'm sticking to open-source and alternative software
for CF development.
James E. Thomas
Baker Botts L.L.P. Web Developer
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ajas Mohammed
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [houcfug] Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 - 3-4
user license
Hello everyone,
Our team decided that we need to have DW for
development, so my question is, is there a discount code(for the user
group) I can use to buy DW CS3 from Adobe??? What is the best way to buy
3-4 user license for DW CS3.
Adobe site says Buy US$399
<http://www.adobe.com/go/buydreamweaver> for DW CS3.
Thanks,
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http://ajashadi.blogspot.com
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No matter what, find a way. Because thats what
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the
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skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
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<Ajas Mohammed />
http://ajashadi.blogspot.com
We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.
No matter what, find a way. Because thats what winners do.
You can't improve what you don't measure.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high
intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution;
it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
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