[thelist] HomeSite
Raymond Camden
jedimaster at mindseye.com
Tue Jul 1 15:26:05 CDT 2003
> Gabriel Vasquez <enkryption at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Why do people like HomeSite so much? What does it have over...say
> > Dreamweaver? Any input would be appreciated.
>
> well, now that "Homesite Plus" is *part* of Dreamweaver MX,
It's not part of it, it's just on the same CD. It's a completely
different program.
> it has very little i suppose :-) one thing that i heard is
HS+ is very different from DWMX.
> missing from the version of Homesite that is integrated into
> Dreamweaver MX is the multi-file search and replace with full
> regexp support... it's quite a geeky feature, i'll concede,
> but one that i would miss greatly.
Nothing is missing. You might as well call HS+ ColdFusion Studio 5.2 or
somesuch. HS+ IS the latest version of Studio. The only thing 'missing'
is customization of the UI, and that was because of the Adobe lawsuit,
AND that was corrected in the HS+ patch.
> also Homesite is only $99 while Dreamweaver MX is $399
But DWMX costs less than ColdFusion Studio did. So, for less money, you
get two products, and you may actually like DWMX. Personally, I don't
like it as much as HS+.
> i'm seriously trying to *migrate* from Homesite to
> Dreamweaver MX because there've been rumblings and rumors in
> the industry that Macromedia may discontinue it as a
> stand-alone product, possibly integrating it deeply into
> their other products. Cold Fusion Studio also uses an
Not true in the least. I don't work for MACR, but they just released a
patch a few weeks back.
> only-slightly-tweaked version of Homesite for it's HTML/CFML
> Code editing user-interface, so this seems fairly likely.
Eh? It has RDS integration, db access, and more than just a slighty
tweaked interface.
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