[thelist] WYSIWYG x-browser design - is it a reality?

[Matt]

spinhead wrote:

> they're planning on building a databased online ordering system and
> reconfiguring the entire site to work with it. Our VP of Marketing seems to
> know what Ultradev is (not saying he knows how to use it) but I'm still
> hoping they'll take it and keep it, rather than taking it, breaking it, and
> asking me to make it work.

Just make sure that they're not under the impression that UltraDev will allow
anyone to build a fully functioning "databased online ordering system" w/out DB
or backend experience. It is not WYSIWYG for DB. Once the DB is actually built,
you could then use UltraDev to modify,expand and customize it. But you still
need someone on hand who's well versed in DB, even if they're using UD to build
it.


> Minor tangent: he seemed astonished that I do virtually all my work by hand
> with a text editor (TextPad, actually.) He's under the impression the 'real
> professionals' don't do anything by hand, or at least, not much. Comments?

50% Dreamweaver, 50% hand. I used to go back and forth between BBedit and
Dreamweaver because the DW code window was weak, but at this point the DW code
editing features are solid. I especially love the split window feature, so that
I can view the WYSIWYG and Code at the same time as I'm editing one or the
other.

It's funny though how this has become such a polarized issue. Half the time the
people outside the production process I talk to are convinced that "real"
coders only do it by hand, and the other half believe that "real" coders use
DreamWeaver, or GoLive, or whatever they're convinced is the industry standard.

Matt