RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique

date posted 20th October 2005 13:39

> Dreamweaver produces clean code

Dreamweaver produces Better code, but not clean code. It still puts needless
stuff in there, imho.


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I have to disagree with you to some extent. You can only consider comparing
the latest FrontPage with Dreamweaver as in previous version of FrontPage
there is just no comparison - lets face it, it was shite through and
through. It created the most god awful and bloated underlying source code
which was quite possibly worse than Word HTML.

Dreamweaver produces clean code - it is the end user that ends up adding the
bloated extra's through a lack of understanding of the underlying source
code. As has already been mentioned, Dreamweaver provides both a source code
view and a design view so choose the one that suits you best or use both.
Making use of the source view means that DW will not touch your code unless
of course you want to start making use of any of the extra's such as the
built-in in behaviours etc.

...and for my shameless plug I run a Dreamweaver newsgroup which currently
has over 4400 members if you would like to find out more:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Macromedia-Dreamweaver/

Simon

:: -----Original Message-----
:: Dreamweaver is like FrontPage in many ways. If you don't
:: already know how to
:: write standards-compliant code, it certainly won't help you.
:: It fills the
:: page with unnecessary js bloat and likes to stuff tables
:: everywhere. You
:: spend more time fighting it than writing with it. On the
:: few occasions I
:: used it I spent most of my time sighing deeply, going to
:: code view and
:: typing or pasting in stuff I'd written in notepad! Having
:: said that, it
:: might have improved. I use TextPad and HTML kit, but I'm not
:: a developer or
:: a designer, so I don't need speed as I'm not coding every day.


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