I. HATE. DREAMWEAVER.
I was forced to use Dreamweaver at work a few times, and even tried it once or twice myself to see what I was missing. In every case, I quickly ran from the room screaming, hiding under my copy of BBEdit. Friends tell me that Macromedia developers are very friendly and responsive to feature suggestions and bug fixes if you talk to them at Macworld Expos and the like, but I'll let them do the negotiating while I stick to text editors.
I figure that when Dreamweaver programmers get promoted or leave Macromedia to pursue greater things, they go to Microsoft to work on Windows, and when developers of Microsoft Windows are punished, they're sent to Macromedia to work on DreamWeaver.
No, really. Here's the evidence.
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Why does the focus ring around the filename draw right through scroll bar region and the window border?
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This is the bottom right-hand corner of my screen, so what happened to the resize box on the File Browser? Hit the Zoom button in the window titlebar at the wrong moment and you'll never resize this baby again. Using the Rearrange command won't save you and, if you're on a PowerBook with just the built-in LCD running at its native resolution, you can't switch to a higher resolution to try and get the resize box back into view. You'll have to drop down to a lower resolution, then choose the Rearrange command and pray that Dreamweaver doesn't crash after the screen resolution changes.
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I was dragging some text around in a blank document and Dreamweaver reprimanded me with this error, telling me that it tripped up on some JavaScript. Where is the JavaScript in a blank document?
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Here, DreamWeaver valiantly tried to connect to MySQL as user X, user Y and even as root but nothing worked. Other applications like mysql, YourSQL and CocoaMySQL had no problems connecting and, heck, even if they did they would tell me why!
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Step 1: Copy text from TextEdit
Step 2: Paste into DreamWeaver
Step 3: Be amazed.
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Open, save or synchronize Instance of Site X and you're harrassed with this error. The only way out: start from scratch in a new template.
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