Dreamweaver always subject to resource indigestion

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December 10, 2019
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Hello Everyone,

not a month goes by without someone complaining about slow processes and jerky user interface activity, so today I'm back in charge.
the new version of Dreamweaver is totally unusable... at least as long as it is not in demo mode... i.e. working on C:/, one site at a time, teamwork reduced to a single collaborator, etc... etc....
and then this Adobe Dreamweaver Helper... what a greedy one... couldn't we reduce its activity somehow without loosing the real use of the helper ?
fortunately Sublime Text can help me at these times....

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pziecina

Legend

Hi Birnou, doing nothing today, so thought I would look in on the forum.

I don't think Dw is meant for users who are building anything more than 1 site at a time, or more than 1 user working from the local drive. So anything more than those users should not be using Dw. Even modern client side code has fallen way behind what is possible, (or required in many cases), with only code support for those who are building small 'cheap' or 'demo/personal' sites.

Dw was built, (years ago) for such type of user, and over the years bits have been added for such users. Without a complete rewrite of the underlying Dw code it has reached its limit of possibilities. All the updates to Dw since CS6, have simply been add-ons to support the single user, (designer not developer). Slowing it down completely once more is asket of it.

Who is to blame for this, is irrelevant now. Simply because to get it working correctly for anything more is not going to happen, as the underlying code that ties everything together is too old and slow, and Adobe either is not interested, or does not 'see' Dw as more than it currently is.

B i r n o uAuthor

Legend

hello Paula,

cool to see you again on the forum... well, actually, since the new forum is in place, I'm not as assiduous as I used to be.
it's too much mess if we're registered in various forums...

we get tons of mail without filtering possibilities by forums, by subject or anything constructive... everything happens in the same funnel... results, I only catch a thread, at random, once in a while

So let's get back to our business....

I share your opinion on the user target and the context of use, however... following Dreamweaver's digestive slowness, I opened the preferences... I unchecked... without thinking too much
- activate the integrated 2-byte input
- activate code indicators
- enable descriptive bubble information
- Auto insertion of braces
- Auto insertion of quotation marks
- Enable Linting
then I relaunched Dreamweaver,
I opened the task manager, and stopped Dreamweaver Helper, (the one who is an atonome singleton) not the one included in Dreamweaver's internal tasks.
and since then...

Dreamweaver works without slowdown, on server, and with multiple users

pziecina

Legend

unless I don't understand what you're saying... which is certainly the case... I was talking to you about DW4 (Macromedia) and not DW2004 (Adobe)

then the HTML/JS code editor was not the one of DW but the one of Homesite, and the same for the CSS editor which was the one from ToStyle... both wasn't from DW (and that's why Macromedia acquire Allaire)

then you seem to confuse the DW 5 version with DW CS5... the two are ten years apart and have nothing to discuss. however, it is true that the DW5 does not exist and corresponds precisely to the rewriting of DW from scratch (bringing together Ultra Dev (fomerly Drumbeat) and DW) as I said earlier

Anyway, the point therefore that I was trying to demonstrate is that contrary to what you said in your first comment, DW was not written at the time of HTML2, but was entirely rewritten during HTML4... and for Javascript I hesitate between 1.4 and 1.5...

You missunderstand Birnou. The comparison between Dw Ultra Dev and Dw CS5 was for the underlying code used, as both use html2, inline css (version 2) and js v2. It has nothing to do with when or what is included, which if you have Ultra Dev installed you can check for yourself. All that a user must do, is go to the Dw instalation, (including what is installed in the 'hidden' user folder) and open the files to see what is used.

The above does not apply to the Brackets editor integration, 2017 and later) as this does use html4, css and js v4.

As for Dw MX (2004), I included that simply to point out that the fact css was included for users to build stylesheets, that should not be confused with the code Dw itself uses.

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