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Yet Adobe are still charging you for this scrap heap.
By @BenPleysier
Off topic, l've recently been digesting the JonL post in the Wappler forum, now removed, he's obviously not a happy bunny anymore with the way things were going.
JonL here.
Just created an account here because someone close to Wappler team asked me politely to reply this.
Wappler is to Dreamweaver what a car to a horse.
Also, I am not a happy bunny indeed. The reason for that is because the great majority of users come from Dreamweaver and they are a bunch of selfish r*tards holding the product back. It's a shame because Wappler team could hit gold if they grew some adult balls.
I only know a handful of ex-DWs that have actually embraced Wappler as what it could be and constantly recicle themselves by learning every single day.
One of them would be Mr Ben Pleysier.
Anyway. Bye. Hope you never step a foot on Wappler community and refuse to switch from php. Go download wordpress.
By @Snoozes32087912mz3e
I understand your frustration. I've said here many times (although this forum is now practically dead which I suppose youd expect given the current status of DW) web-development over the last 5-10 years has become a free for all shite-show, given the amount of options i.e., server-side, front end, databases, css, programs etc has split the developer community into tiny fragments, mainly arguing with each other as to which is the best stack. Glad Im now mainly out of it and enjoying watching it all unfold, from the sidelines. Good rant though, I enjoyed it!
As for Wappler, while I respect the developers of it and what they have achieved over the last 5 years, its not my thing, never was, so no danger in respect of ever stepping onboard.
Can you not edit posts here for typos??? For f*cks sake! These Adobe guys are the worst!
By @Snoozes32087912mz3e
Cant say for sure but I think you get editing privileges after a certain amount of posts. Some of my privileges were revoked when I became a bit outspoken at one point, some years back, lol.
Can you not edit posts here for typos?
By @Snoozes32087912mz3e
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As a new member with only 3 posts, you cannot edit your posts yet. Due to spamming abuses, new users must earn that privilege through forum participation & badges.
Have a look at this discussion from 6 years ago
By @BenPleysier
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Access to the BACK ROOM is restricted. It's not open to the public.
.Has Dreamweaver been discontinued?
By @Gabriel320831976qtj
In all but name you could say. Since a few years ago it does not receive any additional updates to what currently is available. It's now only minimally maintained to iron out some bugs and OS updates. It's rapidly fallen behind since active development was down graded.
Don't view it as the go to web development tool just because its from Adobe, which some may do, if they have insufficient background knowledge. You may want to explore different options if youre planning to be in development for the long run.
What is Dreamweaver's current status?
By @Gabriel320831976qtj
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It's being minimally maintained for the benefit of older users. No new features have been added since Fall of 2020 (ver 21.x) except security & compatibility updates.
See correct answer below for more details:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/dreamweaver-discussions/bootstrap-5/m-p/14046967#M225831
If someone could come up with a replacement for Photoshop I could get off this train.
By @jdcallow
A few years back, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) had gotten to point where it was getting very close to Phoptoshop's abilities and it was free. I'm not sure what kind of development there's been over the last 7ish years, but if you were only using PS for basic editing, it might be worth a look.
Is a decent IDE that hard to make?
By @ealanjones
Think about it - a company the size of Adobe aren't interested in a small piece of the pie they want the whole lot, at least the majority. It's not financially worth the effort to maintain a presence in the sector that was once dominated by Dreamweaver. The landscape has changed over the years, we have a myriad of optional automated web development programs that weren't around back then. The pieces of the pie are getting smaller and smaller and thats OK if youre a smallish development company. VS code an offering from Microsoft and said to currently be the most popular editor used is FREE. Adobe tried to compete with their free offering Brackets which was shaping up to be a good editor in my opinion but for some reason discontinued its development. I think its since been open sourced as a community project but l have no idea how that is going now it's not supported by a big player. There was discussion about future development.
Brackets was never a good editor.
By @Dragan A.
I suppose that depends on ones expectations. It needed ongoing work, that's for sure. l personally found it to be a good 'code' editor. If you rely on a visual interface, similar to that of Dreamweaver, then obviously it wasn't going to be a suitable fit.
what app does Adobe's own staff use?
it doesn't appear they're offering a product to transition to. Is a decent IDE that hard to make?
By @ealanjones
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1. See Adobe Experience Manager. (DAM)
2. See Adobe Portfolio or Adobe Express.
Adobe lost interest in stand alone, desktop web authoring software. The trend now is online site or page builders from browser-based tools.
3. Dreamweaver is not an IDE. An integrated development environment (IDE) is stand-alone desktop software that combines program editing, building, testing, and packaging from one application. See PHPStorm, EclipseIDE, CodeLobsterIDE or VS Code.
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