Interesting enough, and maybe I'm just impatient... However, has anyone else noticed the lack of news or updates for Dreamweaver, Fireworks, MX Studio...

I understand that they have been really focusing on FLEX 1.5, which by the way; could be really groundbreaking... to bad the majority of us don't work for a company willing to fork over $12k. Hmmm, Everyone sign up for the non-commercial license...

I guess in my mind two things have happen:

1. Dreamweaver used to be evolving on a steady progression and now it's become stale. The lack of 'useful' features, such as a debugger, better code editing features and a serious need of a GUI update shows that Dreamweaver has fallen behind in the true options of IDE Web Tools.

Please don't get me wrong, I have owned a license since version one, like many of us; but I am tired of switching to Eclipse for Java/JSP or NuSphere for PHP (especially for debugging).

2. Macromedia's product focus is really starting to get stretched thin. I'm glad Macromedia is trying to compete and grow, but they need to really group and package their products better. Do we want two versions of Flash or Studio MX? Why should we need two products such as Flash Communication Server MX and Flash Remoting MX when I want both of their functionality under one MX product?

Hopefully, we'll start to hear news or we'll get a surprise one day when we go to their web site (I'm sick and tired of the same three flash header movies) and we'll see news of a much needed and hopefully anticipated announcement of the new Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Studio product offerings.


--Todd

After reading the articles from MAX 2004 Sneak Peak. I have to same I am disappointed that the only two note worthy announcements about Dreamweaver were a code tool bar and code folding.

A code tool bar? Geez, that was hard since you already own HomeSite.

Code folding? There are alot of code editors with code folding that are a lot better and are FREE.

Seriously, Dreamweaver is becoming FrontPage.

No serious developer can use Dreamweaver start to finish in either JSP, PHP or even the old ASP/VBScript.

Does anyone have any better news than those two annoucements for Dreamweaver?

--Todd

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