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francescotacconi
francescotacconi
Inspiring
February 17, 2017
Question

Impossible to manage code with Dreamweaver. Just a communication.

  • February 17, 2017
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Hi,

I'm building a new site and I'm making it with Bloc application.

You can see here Home  what I made up till now, it's incomplete, I'm just at the beginning and showing to the customer different layouts in the same page to make easier his choices.

In order to customize the pre made Blocs code I tried to open the site with Dreamweaver, but Dreamweaver just freezes and stop working immediately.

So I bought Coda and installed, with Coda the site is very quick and fast to manage, this page opens immediately and every css or html change appears immediately in the preview window.

I've seen in the past that even when building sites from scratch with Dreamweaver the app is slow and heavy for the OS. I'm sorry but I've been very surprised by Coda and I find it amazing.

I won't stop my CC subscription but I hope to hear very soon some good news that fix the Dreamweaver heavy slowness.

Best regards.

Francesco

PS. I'm working on an iMac late 2014, 4 GHz Intel Core i7, 32 GB MHz DDR3 ram on Mac OsX 10.12.3

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    osgood_
    Legend
    February 17, 2017

    Problem with Coda is I think it is 'dead' software. Panic have not updated it in some time and there seems to be no forward guidance as to what it's long term future is. It still uses the old webkit browser engine for live view which doesn't support Flex. Plugins are old and a not up-to-date as the web moves forward fast.

    Disappointing really as Coda has the basis of being a really nice OS application BUT I think Brackets and Atom has possibly killed it off or at least making the sofwtare company re-think its road map.

    francescotacconi
    francescotacconiAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 17, 2017

    Thank you a lot Osgood, your informations are really precious to me, I don't know nor Brackets neither Atom, but now I'm gonna look for them. In your opinion wich one is better than the other?

    Thank you again

    O
    osgood_
    Legend
    February 17, 2017

    francescotacconi  wrote

    Thank you a lot Osgood, your informations are really precious to me, I don't know nor Brackets neither Atom, but now I'm gonna look for them. In your opinion wich one is better than the other?

    Thank you again

    Coda is a nice application so dont let me stop you from continuing to use it. It might be all you need for the foreseeable future and Panic may well bring out v3. Personally I'm just concerned that it is falling behind other website code editors, because of lack of ongoing devlopment, if that is a concern for you. I have Coda but dont use it  because I dont want to waste my time using something which is not keeping up with the basic trends and no one at Panic seems to be coming out and saying what the future holds.

    All code editors are really very much the same, give or take a few things. What one has the other lacks. I'm not using either Brackets or Atom but have tried both recently. Brackets is what is in the new version of DW but Brackets may well work better as it is lightweight and has the real time preview window, which Atom doesnt, you have to install a plugin. Given the option to use one or the other at this point I'd probably choose Brackets, it just seems faster and less complex.

    Both are free so you can trial them at your leisure, no time restrictions.

      pziecina
      pziecina
      Legend
      February 17, 2017

      As this is a user to user forum, it would be better if you posted your observations as a bug -

      https://dreamweaver.uservoice.com/

      francescotacconi
      francescotacconiAuthor
      Inspiring
      February 17, 2017

      That's quite funny, I searched a lot for the official Dreamweaver forum and I landed in the user to user. Maybe it's me, maybe not. Anyway thank you very much indeed.

      pziecina
      pziecina
      Legend
      February 17, 2017

      It's not you.

      I know of 4 different ways to post feedback about Dw at the moment, and getting a reply from any of them, is slower than sending a letter to Mars, and waiting for a reply.

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