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[zekegri]

Seems like Adobe would have someone of your talent and recognition of needed improvements onboard BEFORE they release these things that cost a LOT of money to upgrade-hello ADOBE?

[Quadrat]

This is a slip-shod upgrade. Looks like it really is time to find a different professional-level web design application and ditch Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver really is a mess. At this point, I think it'd be best for Adobe to kill Dreamweaver and start from scratch, like they did with PageMaker/InDesign.

[eyot08nwrl]

Both Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS6 updates were very disappointing. Seems Adobe focuses on too many web project but give there core products hardly any love at all.

For HTML I've now switched to Coda2 on the mac. It's so much better.

I really hope Adobe comes with better updates in the future and I might switch back... For now I'm just sad.

[DMS0205]

As for design view in Dreamweaver has never been good. And as a developer you should not be using that. You should also test in the browsers. But the lack of HTML5 support is sad. Looks like they made a push for more mobile then anything else.

[DMS0205]

eyot08nwrl, on 31 May 2012 - 07:03 AM, said:

Both Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS6 updates were very disappointing. Seems Adobe focuses on too many web project but give there core products hardly any love at all.

For HTML I've now switched to Coda2 on the mac. It's so much better.

I really hope Adobe comes with better updates in the future and I might switch back... For now I'm just sad.

You also may want to try sublime text 2. It is free and has some nice features.

[ssugiyama]

I have your Missing Manual text for CS5.5 and am looking forward to the CS6 ebook where, I hope you will be filling in the missing gaps that you've identified in this review article.

[ssugiyama]

Just read the other comments and have this to say. Perhaps DW CS6 is lacking in a number of features, but I have switched to it from CS5.5 and have been using it to continue updating my website. I still like it a lot. I am hoping David Sawyer McFarland will just help us along with his great writing/teaching skills to overcome the deficiencies he has observed in CS6.

[whitedog]

I can't say I'm surprised that Dreamweaver CS6 comes up short in modern web technologies. Adobe's commitment to Flash has distracted their leadership and drained off resources that could nave been better utilized elsewhere. You don't need a crystal ball to see this is the case. The proof is in the pudding. Likewise, they have been focussing heavily on developing cloud based apps and services in an effort to build up new revenue streams. Trying to do too much, they are bound to fall down somewhere. Dreamweaver seems to be this year's victim. It's an understatement to say this is shortsighted as new and improved web design tools are coming out all the time. People now have other options besides Adobe when it comes to creating content for the web. Dreamweaver is too expensive at half the price.

[avance24]

Dreamweaver CS6 is a Macromedia museum, e.g. look at the behaviors dialogue boxes, pure 1996, idiotic and almost unusable.

[jongbali]

Eclipse PDT is the best. nothing can even get closer.

[RudolfHelder]

Quadrat, on 31 May 2012 - 06:40 AM, said:

This is a slip-shod upgrade. Looks like it really is time to find a different professional-level web design application and ditch Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver really is a mess. At this point, I think it'd be best for Adobe to kill Dreamweaver and start from scratch, like they did with PageMaker/InDesign.

I switched to Flux and like it so much better.

[stuartobrien]

I agree that Adobe missed the boat in certain areas with this release, as mentioned in the article. I wish they would continue to concentrate on the standard panels like CSS, FTP, Snippets, the Code View Window. Especially as mentioned in this article the Css Styles panel in the UI. It seems to become less fluid to use with each release, almost like it is being negatively effected/forgotten while enhancements are made in other areas. When I add a new style, typing in the left input box doesn't auto filter the drop down below - I have to use the arrows to find the intended style. Then when I've chosen it's attribute and push return again, it bumps me out of that editing environment and back to nowhere, I have to use my mouse to get back to type my next style. Check out FireBug for a smooth editing experience. Snippets - check out Coda for clever re-usable code snippets interface. Code View - check out Komodo to see the vertical lines connecting code blocks, and interactive open/close function brackets allowing me to quickly identify code blocks. And I cant reduce the size of the text below the 10pt or it ends up looking unreadable. FTP - good work getting the multi threading going, but the graphic feedback is still lacking during upload, I still feel like it's quite primitive, look at Filezilla for a simple queued, multi threaded environment.

These general standard things are where Adobe should continue to concentrate before focusing all their attention on segmented trendy new features like jQuery Mobile and Responsive.

I use Dreamweaver, coming from a design background. but I don't know how long I can continue to if Adobe don't keep up with the standard stuff.

(I have just as many rants about the new Photoshop for UI designers)

[BrianArndt]

Do we really need a dialog box to add multiple classes to an element. <p class="one two"> seriously?</h1>