OK... I spent 1 hour of my downloading time to check this new FW version and I have to say that I'm quite disapointed.

As far as I can see this was a minor work for Macromedia and I don't get how those dudes need to measure by years the time it took them to present us with these "improvements".

Basically this is all about a new interface. And then, a little improvement here and there. Well.. I'm calling these "improvements" but this is not linear. Some of us will like it and some won't. And this is what I see as a major problem with software "upgrades". The improvements should be real new advantages and not new concepts, which may not be loved by everybody.

As a real new advantages I can't see any in FW MX. Can someone point me some?

I was expecting that finally a user could frame a bitmap object with a simple 1 px line. That would be a real new advantage. Nobody could say: "I don't like FW MX providing the chance to frame a bitmap". But this wasn't there. Which is there is a lot of things that I criticize. I can say "I don't like this interface".

Anyway, it's out of question to purchase this pseudo-new Fireworks. And to say the truth, it's sighting took me away the will to check the other new products.

Oh... I almost forgot... what we can ALWAYS expect from this Macromedia dudes it's a growing hunger for our computers resources and as we all know that only means one thing (specially when real improvements are so rare): low class programming work.

You are damn right bro,
It consumes lot more resources now. MX looks different bit fancy like winXp but there is nothing to wonder about. I think that macromedia is somehow impressed from bilgates.

All i can say is an improvement is the photoshop sytle blur tools. Thank god i've got a fast connection otherwise i would have been mightily disappointed.

Ain't too impressed with Dreamweaver MX neither.

"Those who think they know it all, in fact no nothing at all" - Me!

Have you looked at the Data Driven Graphics Wizard? I have started looking at Fireworks now with the MX release but this feature seems quite usefull - you can make hundreds of buttons just providing the template and making the right xml file... they have put a tutorial in www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/studio/

I think that the new extensibility features will mean some great improvements in the future. I guess that there will soon be more extensions available for FireWorks, like there are for Dreamweaver. FireWorks will also get it's own exchange within a few months.

For the rest: I agree that there are no radical improvements. But the ones that have been made are really usefull to me.

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It isn't a big thing. But I really like that I can edit the text in the document now.

Plus I like the MX format because of the context sensative properties window. That was the best thing about Dreamweaver and now they are usuing in all their programs.

You see.. that's what I was talking about when I said that new concept are not real improvements, because it can't be a consensual change of concepts.

I don't like that edit text change. I respect your opinion but I don't like. And that's the problem with this upgrade: there are no obvious improvements (of the kind that everybody loves).

I to an not overly impressed with Fireworks MX. Spend ages looking for things that they have now moved to the properies panel. I'm afrid I have to agree that the new text editing on the page is a bit strange. I don't like either. to move the text after editing, you need to change to the 'select' arrow tool, which is a pain if you need to move it just a little.

The new interface is not as good as it could be. The panels open similar to MS Word on a Mac <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle> (I don't like Mac's - sorry) and the dark grey makes it look dull and boring.

I have got used to some of the new features in Dreamweaver MX, but I'm still trying to get used to the interface, it's all a bit suqashed up in one window.

I also don't understand why they named their new product just Dreamweaver MX? Why not Dreamweaver UltraDev MX, as this sounds more logical to me anyway.

Paul

Edited by - pdg123 on 19 May 2002 12:01:05

I like Macromedia and its products! MX studio is a great web progress!
The workspace is not very good,but its power is very good!
Using them, I believe you can love them!