Aral Balkan

Everyone (including yours truly) appears to be speculating as to what will happen to those applications in the Macromedia and Adobe product lines that have traditionally been competing neck-to-neck and which offer a similar array of features. So have your say. Would you rather see Dreamweaver or GoLive live on? Which do you work with and prefer? Why? What are the coolest features in each that you like to see live on even if the product doesn't?

Comments

• Product speculation is so much fun!
  
  First, is GoLive profitable? Second, is Dreamweaver? Third, based on NDA, what do we not know, and are willing to go from there?
  
  GoLive is the ONLY PC equivalent Quicktime editor that I know of... and this was 4 years ago. To take advantage of the many different tracks in Quicktime, you had 2 options on the PC; Media Cleaner Pro, which sux, and GoLive. Media Cleaner didn't really do anything helpful... but GoLive... you could have multiple video tracks, multipl audio tracks, and some other... weirder tracks.
  
  Once you flattened this, you had a phat .mov file, usually only capable of being created via Mac geeks.
  
  ...however, for HTML editing, GoLive sux. Granted, it has a ton of panels, but most people who know what they are doing are not using WSYIWYG's...
  
  Either way, I use Dreamweaver all the time to setup quick index pages to host my Flash content, or make quick title pages; since they aren't websites, but rather just pages, it works great.
  
  I havent' touched GoLive in forever, but don't ever remember an extensibility layer that Dreamweaver has had since 3; I just leraned the other day Photoshop had a JavaScript API? Well well... welcome to the party, Adobe.
  
  Problem is, not all the CF'ers have bought into the using Dreamweaver as their IDE, and FlexBuilder leaves much to be desired... so... not sure man.
  
  Personally, excluding the Quicktime editor, I never liked GoLive; a lot of useless features that real web developers would never use.
  
  Same for Dreamweaver, though, who knows.
  
  I say Dreamweaver will live, and GoLive will die; hopefully they will canabalize some features from GoLive.

  by JesterXL on 2005-04-19 15:54:11

• From a ColdFusion programmer slash designer's point of view, I soooo hope that Dreamweaver is here to stay.
  
  However, an interesting note is that Macromedia has just recently released Flexbuilder (which is just Dreamweaver with an API for Flex applications). Perhaps Adobe will take the best features from Dreamweaver and insert them into Go Live and call it Goweaver or Dreamlive or something and just leave Flexbuilder as it is...

  by Nic Johnson on 2005-04-19 15:58:46

• I went to one of Adobe's user group meetings a few days ago, and although their rep did not have the authority to say what is going to live on, and what's gonna be dropped, he several times said "Adobe Dreamweaver" and "Adobe Flash". It kind of made me think we're gonna see more of both in the years to come.

  by Igor Volk on 2005-04-27 13:33:30