Disable Synchronization Information in the site preferences. This SERIOUSLY improved the lagging menus scrolling at the speed of molasses on a cold winters day. The dog ass slow pings and pongs back and forth from the server will be eliminated too.

If you are having difficulty connecting to FTP with a Mac, it is usually the built-in Mac Firewall which Dreamweaver cannot negotiate properly….. yet another flaw. Turn off your Mac software firewall and it will connect instantly.

I code in .NET so use Visual Studio (which I love) but recently I went freelance so knew I would have to get to grips with Dreamweaver and to say I felt like I’d gone back through a time warp would be an understatement, and I was using CS3 which is the current version at the time of writing this.

I haven’t used basic input controls and SSI etc in eons but the books I read used those. Then when I covered its dynamic features I was unhappy to see its support for ASP.NET and JSP to be practically non-existent, and to see the code for its built in features (such as database work) using classic ASP and PHP to be convoluted, inefficient, insecure, out of date, and non-scalable. No OO programming in sight. I thought that Dreamweaver had moved on but it seems not.

I do wish designers would stop trying to be developers as it always leaves such a mess as they live in the past.

So why Adobe doesnt make the same for coldfusion? Flex and Coldfusion are quite similar in the syntax (you can have XML/MXML objects or pure script)

Homesite’s temporary files have the form hs_filename.ext, CFStudio’s had the form cf_filename.ext. You’ll find that Homesite+ temp files also have the form cf_filename.ext

That said, there hasn’t been an upgrade to either HS or HS+ for ages. I use either HS or Dreamweaver, but when I use DW its always in raw code mode, and it always feels like the most memory hungry notepad replacement going

You are missing debug and intellisense in your list. Other than that you pretty much have everything that is needed.

I was recently forced to switch from CFStudio 5 (could not find a legit license online) to Homesite 5.5+ (bundled with DW). I cannot see a difference between that and CFStudio 5. They are both significantly better than DW.

Are there significant differences between intype and e?

As for a “Design View”, I only use it about 5% of the time as I’m primarily a hard core cfml coder, but when I need design view, I LOVE that it is available. To my knowledge, there is NO design view in Eclipse (second strike).

My last annoyance with Eclipse is that if you just double click a .CFM file that is outside a project, you can’t just “edit” it like you can with DW, it will generate an error complaining the file isn’t part of an existing project or even properly be able to identify something that IS part of an existing project unless you actually open it from within Eclipse.

There are other issues to be sure but my main point is it is all a matter of perspective. I put about a dozen hours into trying to make use of Eclipse because I was interested in the new CFML debugging capabilities, however, in the end, I felt too handicapped using it over DW to make the switch even with the new debugging capabilities. I’m happy to keep paying the $300 per copy of DW for now.