[Hidden-tech] Future of Dreamweaver and Flash; Move on Microsoft?

[Daniel Fried]

I'd never heard of it, but I just checked it out.

NVU is not a replacement for Dreamweaver for the professional developer.
Dreamweaver has the support I need for web programming languages like
ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, .NET etc.  NVU is basically an HTML editor.  NVU looks
like it's just designed to replace the existing free HTML editors out there.

For professional developers there are open source options like Eclipse which
is an extensible development environment that has support for many different
languages and development platforms.

I haven't found anything that is as easy to set up and use as Dreamweaver
that still supports the full range of functionality I require (although the
requirement that it support ColdFusion really cuts the list of available
options down quite a lot)

-Dan

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Trace Meek wrote:

> My bet is that Freehand, Fireworks, and GoLive (but not Microsoft) 
> will  fade away. With any luck I'll be relying more heavily on good 
> old  BBEdit by then! (Gotta have my Photoshop and InDesign, though.)

I'm curious if any of the profession web developers on this list have:

(a) heard of

(b) ever tried

NVU (http://www.nvu.com)?

This is a product of Michael Robertson (of mp3.com) at Linspire taking 
Mozilla's Composer and making a professional, Free Software tool for web 
site editing.  I haven't tried it myself (I use vim or Zope ;) but from 
what I have seen it looks good and runs natively on Windows, Unix and Mac.

Also, as a related side note, I read some recent web chatter that said 
the next Firefox will support scalable vector graphics (SVG) by default.

Regards,

Mark

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