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April 6, 2019
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Can't turn off irrelevant error messages

  • April 6, 2019
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I'm trying to work on an SVG document, the first iteration of which is generated by Illustrator.  You'd think Illustrator and Dreamweaver could agree on a format, but they can't.  The Illustrator SVG coding is primitive.  It's so out of date, your own validators reject it, and Dreamweaver does too. I get one incomprehensible error message after another, none of which has any solution mentioned on this or any other help site.  I find the same questions on Google and Bing going back more than ten years, and there still isn't any way to fix it listed here, there, or anywhere.  Lots of people ask, but no one gets an answer, and instead of bug-fixes we get new tools that don't have instructions either.  I've been using Adobe since Photoshop 1, and I can't believe I'm still frustrated by an issue left from...ahem...Dreamweaver 3, which I believe was the first version after Adobe bought Macromedia.

Since I can't find any help on this issue, and the "known fixes" are neither known nor fixes, perhaps someone here, who is not an "evangelist" ("self-important salesman") who refuses to give straight answers, nor an "expert" ("reasonably-gifted amateur") who endlessly refers people to the same "help pages", none of which exist or is up-to-date, can give me an answer.  My code is perfect.  It is validated by every other validator, and the thing is, when I open the file, which has been tested 50 times at the very least, there's no message. I validate it, I check it, and then the first change to the page brings up the message, even when the only change was to add a space and then remove it again.

None of the advice is useful.  If I turn off code hinting altogether, the message still appears, but since I paid for code hinting, I shouldn't have to turn off what I paid for to make the software run properly.  I also have done nothing to alter the default settings, or the install settings.  There is not one single page in all of Adobe addressing this problem, other than in the forum, and there are no answers to this question there either.  You don't need to see my code to deal with this, because this is not an issue that should be fixed on an ad hoc basis.  This is a bug in Dreamweaver, and forcing people to come here to get tailored workarounds and the "we've already answered this question" type of answer, does nothing, literally nothing, for the millions of people out there who don't have time to search for arcane, hidden knowledge, or do endless research and testing to fix the problem.  That's your job, and I'm not getting paid by Adobe to fix their problems.  The last time I reported a bug, some idiot programmer at Adobe wanted me to get up at 6 AM for a "video meeting" to discuss it, and offered me absolutely nothing in return. 6 AM, for nothing? Really? Do Adobe programmers not understand the concept of "time zones"?  Have any of you noticed that you can't drag a colon or a chunk of text with colons in it while you're working in CSS?  That one goes back to 2006, I believe, and it isn't fixed yet.  In fact, when I look it up, I can't find a single mention of the fact, but you can check it yourself.  Should I get up at 6 AM to explain that to you as well?

I want a straight answer to this question, I want to know to whom I should be speaking about it, and whether the information is really available.  If you can't fix it, we deserve an honest admission and explanation.  I'm sick of wasting hours fiddling with Dreamweaver settings to make it useful again. If an error message pops up a thousand times, with no links or error numbers or explanations, then it's a bug, not a feature.  Pop up twice? Sure. Pop up ten times? No.  Pop up a thousand times? No, no, no, etc. no.

Adobe has been profiting from my patronage for about the entire life of the company.  Please do me the courtesy, if you are part of their ecosystem, in not making this my fault.  If you can't fix it, and you don't know whom within Adobe can, please don't answer; I can do my own web searches, and Adobe's internal search system isn't designed to make information you need available.  It's meant to make you pay for it.  Anyone of you, go ahead an give it a shot, and see what you come up with.

Fix these problems, or tell us you won't.  Honesty counts.

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 6, 2019

This is a user-to-user forum, not Adobe support. 

Why dont' you post the  code and relevant error message(s) so we can all understand what you're talking about? 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert