waiting for Dreamweaver CS4, OR migrating to another developer?

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Hi:
Not long time ago when DWMX came out I got very excited. At last something real came out. I tried Codecharge, some coffeecup tools and many many other programs that claimed that they could help us develop websites with less coding and more thinking. But it was only DW and just DW which could make things right. Golive was there, trying to compete with DW but it was a joke comparing to DW. Golive was just a design tool but DW was a real developer tool. Many great books about DWMX came out and showed us new ways of making best websites ever. DWMX2004 came out with good improvements and then DW8 with some good fixes. But most of the major options where the same as MX. I got worried when Adobe's acquisition came out and after seeing what happened to DW in version CS3 I really panicked. It is going to become a newer version of Golive!!!
I'm not the only one who is worried. look at this open letter at http://stringfoo.com/2007/05/08/an-open-letter-to-adobe/ and you will see even PHP developers (I am a CF developer) loved DW but the new version is so disappointing that we all believe it might be the end of DW for developers.
I ask Adobe people:
Should I migrate to another tool? Should we all forget about next version of DW (I assume it will be CS4) and go for some tools that do things 50% less effective than DW and 200% more messy?
Is there any hope that CS4 becomes a new hope for us who love "less coding and more ideas?"
Or we are just waiting for a newer version of DW as an upgrade for Golive?
Please help us decide and not to wait if there is no hope and no help for us developers.
Thanks
Benign

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Benign wrote:
> I'm not the only one who is worried. look at this open letter at
> http://stringfoo.com/2007/05/08/an-open-letter-to-adobe/ and you will see even
> PHP developers (I am a CF developer) loved DW but the new version is so
> disappointing that we all believe it might be the end of DW for developers.

That open letter is full of excellent suggestions. Although I don't
agree that Dreamweaver is just becoming a newer version of GoLive, I,
too, would have liked to see more done on the server side in this
version. The way to influence the direction of CS4 is to submit feature
requests through the Adobe website:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

Now that CS3 is out of the door, the development team will be drawing up
its initial plans for the next release. Now is the time to tell the team
what you would like to see in CS4.

--
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

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Drea David:
Thanks for the link and thanks for the reply. I will send what I expect and I will send as many new ideas that I can. I hope Adobe team take a look at what I and other CF/PHP/ASP/.NET/... developers send them. I assume the new version will be out in two yours at least and I hope till then we have version 8 or even 9 of CF and other new versions of other serverside techs or even maybe brand_new serverside technologies. I believe what makes DW unique is doing what other softwares can't do and that's saving the time of developers. I hope they keep this option for the rest of DW life.
Thanks
Benign