[Pugged] High-level/visual tools

[Chris Van Cleve]

Well, I've been using DreamWeaver MX since the day it was released, and it
is AWESOME. First visual editor I've been able to stomach. It highlights
code wonderfully for both PHP and ASP (I know, dirty word, but I have to do
both so having one environment for both is a "good thing")

Dreamweaver has yet to rewrite any of my code. I'm not sure where you get
that. Then again, no uber geek like a pugger would use the app stock, right?
You went into preferences and told it how to behave first, right? It only
took you a couple minutes, and you fell in love with the total control you
had over PHP formatting, right?

;)

Chris Van Cleve

On 8/22/02 7:33 PM, "Travis Carden" <travis@traviscarden.com> mumbled
something similar to:

> All visual HTML tools (with the possible exception of the new
> Dreamweaver MX) are the demon-spawn of Satan.  Of all of them,
> Dreamweaver is the least demonic, but even it is horrible about
> rewriting your code and using bad syntax.  (It also has awful
> color-coding.)  The newest MX release, however, is supposed to base the
> code editing on HomeSite (which rocks).  I've downloaded the trial
> version of it, though, and it DOES still rewrite some code, and loses
> all of HomeSite's really helpful keyboard shortcuts.  I couldn't
> tolerate it, so I went back to hand-coding.
> 
> Check this out: http://www.webstandards.org/act/campaign/dwtf/.  There's
> a whole freakin' taskforce at the Web Standards Project aimed at
> persuading Macromedia to make a Dreamweaver that doesn't suck.
> 
> Travis Carden, Web Developer
> http://www.traviscarden.com/