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Stephen wrote:
GoLive, for those that need to do a quick HTML web page, <ie> those working in a clerical function, and a professional web application for developers, <Dreamweaver> which is far ahead of GoLive in terms of middleware scripting support, at this point in time.
I use, and teach, both GoLive and Dreamweaver. I started using GoLive when it was GoLive Cyberstudio, and started using Dreamweaver at version
2.
I hate hate hate HATE Dreamweaver.
Why? Glad you asked. 🙂
Beginning in Dreamweaver 3, Dreamweaver intorudced an off-by-one bug in the way it handles nested tables, which is still present today. Under some circumstances, if you have a table inside another table, Dreamweaver miscalculates the size of the outermost table’s width by 1. This can create quite a problem with modifying complex tables.
If you copy a form from one HTML page in Dreamweaver and paste it into another, the contents of the form are copied, but the contents of the FORM tag itself are not. Big pain in the ass.
If you copy-paste elements from one HTML page to another in Golive, Golive automatically updates the path to those elements. Dreamweaver does not.
If you copy an element which has an associated JavaScript to the clipboard in Golive (a rollover, for example), Golive copies the associated Javascript as well, and pastes it into the document when you hit Paste. Dreamweaver does not.
Golive’s site management tools are, in my experience, easier to use, though by a small margin.
Golive’s Javascript editor is, likewise, easier to use.
Dreamweaver’s built-in FTP is extremely fragile. It does not work with certain servers (IBM AIX servers, for example); it is so fragile that it will refuse to connect to FTP servers which do not provide file date stamps in the exact format it expects.
If ind the claim that Dreamweaer is more appropriate than Golive for "serious" Web design specious at best. What is your level of familiarity with each? On what specific features or functionality do you make that claim?
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