Adobe Dreambeaver
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- animatedgif0
"Dreamweaver is the best HTML/PHP/JS/Mobile IDE to date"
HAHAHAAH What the fuck am I reading?
"If you are a good coder you want to be most productive and doing everything in text editors that don't have 1/3rd of Dreamweaver's capabilities just makes you slow and unproductive."
He doesn't know about tab activated snippets or the scripting capabilities of a decent text editor.
Seriously man just because you don't understand how to use something like Textmate/ST2/Emacs correctly doesn't mean that Dreamweaver is more powerful.
- true, but I know coders that spend more time messing with that shit and writing git deploys, they can't knock out the substandard shite that'skingsteven
- substandard bread and butter design studio balls.kingsteven
- for someone who obviously never used DW you sure have a lot of shitty opinons.monolith
- used it years ago, then realised better things exist.
animatedgif - You should be on the Adobe payroll Bozanimatedgif
- me too used it many years ago, never went back...(to be continued)i_was
- nocomply0
As others said there are arguably better alternatives for significantly less money.
But I've been working with DW for about 12 years now and my intimate knowledge of its workflow has made it my code editor of choice.
Recently I tried several other apps as alternatives, but none of them had the same code-hinting / auto-completion that DW did and as a result my workflow slowed down.
I agree that it's a lot more robust than it probably needs to be, but on a decent machine it runs just fine.
- janne0
i hated DW in the past, MM days. But i hear a LOT of good things about the current one.
- benfal990
Iam not a coder so DW is my main tool to create website since 1998.
I like it.
- monNom0
I like DW. Code view/hinting/auto-complete makes things fast, sometimes wysiwyg is nice for switching up content in an exisiting page, and if you're managing a site the templating tools work pretty darn well as an alternative to a DB-based website.
I wouldn't buy it on it's own, but I'll use it if it's around.
- vaxorcist0
at some shops there has always been a near religious hatred of DW, but the last few times I used it, I was surprised how much better it was, and how fast I was able to crank out a comp for a client presention....
monNom.... I wouldn't spend $$ on it either, but I'd not refuse to use it... it's one more tool in the toolbox if it's on a computer at some gig....
- vaxorcist0
text editor/IDE wars have been going on quite a while....like 30 years...
- monolith0
Dreamweaver is the best HTML/PHP/JS/Mobile IDE to date. There is absolutely nothing that beats it.. CS6 is just amazing.
Is it heavy? Yeah sure.. but what you get is such productivity boost it's not comparable to anything else. And I have Coda, Sublime Text 2 in addition to it.
I use these other editors only for quick edits on html files but for the whole project Dreamweaver is magic.
Even the code editor support all modern things, auto-completion for Jquery, HTML, CSS, JS and so on.
- aaux0
Here's a challenge for you DW haters, take a 4 page Word document from a client, and paste it into your text editors. How many of them retained all formatting, links and images in well-written HTML?
- And by haters I mean animatedgifaaux
- Well written HTML?? If you like arbitrary inline CSS.ETM
- Not hating on DW. But this is not a feature to make an argument.ETM
- I wouldn't be taking a 4 page word document from a client....see_thru
- see_thru, can I join you in the magical world of make believe clients you live in?aaux
- ETM0
^
But sooooo much garbage code comes from doing that. Even with the automated "Word Cleanup" feature. The horrors of the garbage inline styles from Word.*shudders
- vaxorcist0
aaux and ETM are both right....
the MS-Turd -> DreamBeaver method is good in the case where the account staff has promised something before noon, and you get the files at, say 11:30....
- tredesigns0
if you can code DW is the shit. But no one that I know that can code use it.
- most coders use plain text editors.... some use IDE's like eclipse....vaxorcist
- nikdaum0
I love Coda 2, but I'm not doing anything super complicated and am fine hand coding. The code hinting is pretty decent though.
- ahli0
Pasting a word document would add <h1> <h2> <p> etc. ?
- monolith0
@tredesigns
I code in almost everything including Obj-C, java etc and I use it non-stop. The reason coders don't use it because of their inertnest and the fact that they live in time of 10 years ago and don't want to change/adopt.
That's why I always have problems with coders and their deadlines. They are just slow as shit and don't nearly do as many things as they should in time.
If you are a good coder you want to be most productive and doing everything in text editors that don't have 1/3rd of Dreamweaver's capabilities just makes you slow and unproductive.
- ahli0
Sublime Text 2 + CodeKit is more powerful for my uses than DW.
- animatedgif0
"Here's a challenge for you DW haters, take a 4 page Word document from a client, and paste it into your text editors. How many of them retained all formatting, links and images in well-written HTML?"
Why would you want to do this? Just get your client to supply you the document in a sensible format in the first place. Learn how to deal with your clients better...
- HTML converted from a word doc
- well-written HTML
Choose one...- Or what I do: Copy and paste Doc into TextEdit, convert to plain-text, copy into Coda, add <p>'s etc., move on with day.elahon
- teh0
i_was is hanging himself...after he takes a nap.
- aaux0
"Just get your client to supply you the document in a sensible format in the first place. Learn how to deal with your clients better..."
Love that response. Just get perfect clients who do everything perfect, that's all there is to it.
Noticed you didn't actually respond to the question, any luck pasting that into Emacs?
- answer to the question, if it's only 4 pages I'd just copy and paste it. Would take 4 minutes topsanimatedgif
- But when I request content from clients I provide the specs for them so I've never encountered this situationanimatedgif
- basics really aauxanimatedgif
- You dont' do much work with actual people, I take it.aaux
- 4 minutes to format a 4 page document? Heh, you are a gnome or something, right?aaux
- you don't have much experience with real business I take it.animatedgif
- State what format you want content in and if its wrong you send it back and say you can't use itanimatedgif