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eWeek Review of Expression Web - 12/5/2006 13:52:20
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RE: eWeek Review of Expression Web - 12/5/2006 14:03:17
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Some of Expression Web's features are even better than those in rivals such as Dreamweaver, including the best CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) browsing tools that we've seen in a Web editing tool. The CSS tools, for example, made it very simple to browse through our styles and actually see what each style looked like before applying it.
Still, while Expression Web is a big step up for Microsoft when it comes to Web authoring, overall it isn't quite up to the level of Dreamweaver, which we believe is a better option for experienced Web developers.
A little grudging I thought. [Although the lack of PHP support is a serious omission.]
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RE: eWeek Review of Expression Web - 12/5/2006 16:46:49
I notice that the upgrade price from FP is $90 from Amazon in the U.S.
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RE: eWeek Review of Expression Web - 12/5/2006 16:49:49
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it runs only on Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and Vista.
- So sad.... Despite the fact that XP is only roughly 85% of the OS, lots of the people who will actually use the development software, USE LINUX OR MACS.
It is clear that MS is not trying to have the next Dreamweaver of web development, but rather be the tool used for people who work with ASP/.NET. There's another review around here somewhere that explains the benefits of users running Visual Studio and ASP.NET.
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RE: eWeek Review of Expression Web - 12/6/2006 2:51:52
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ORIGINAL: BobbyDouglas
It is clear that MS is not trying to have the next Dreamweaver of web development, but rather be the tool used for people who work with ASP/.NET. There's another review around here somewhere that explains the benefits of users running Visual Studio and ASP.NET.
I think you may be right.
They're trying to tie it all down again to M$ products instead of providing something useful to everyone which is a shame.
I've said elsewhere that I hope Expressions gives DW a run for it's money as competition is good for customers - but this seems more like herding people towards M$ than being useful.
I'm presuming here that DW works with .Net to an acceptable level? Why would a company want to limit themselves to a piece of software that only works with .Net architecture if they can get DW that works with any architecture?
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