The new Dreamweaver beta: Subversion, show related files, show code sources

Posted At : May 27, 2008 7:40 AM | Posted By : Brian
Related Categories: Web development
A number of folks have already posted about the availability of the new beta version of Dreamweaver (and Fireworks and Soundbooth) on their blogs, but none of the ones I read talked about any of the new features. Even though I use CFEclipse as my main IDE, some of the features in this new version of Dreamweaver sound promising.

I'll quick paraphrase some of the ones I personally found appealing:

  • Integrated Subversion support.
  • "Live View": you can view your page in a WebKit-powered browser window and make changes to it on the fly.
  • "Related View": these days you usually have several pages working in conjunction that produce the final page view. All of those related files are now listed above the top of your document.
  • "Code Navigator": shows you all of the code sources that affect the code you're currently working on. What isn't clear is whether that will work with ColdFusion code.

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Thanks for the heads-up, I wasn't aware of the beta. I was hoping to see more IDE functionality than this for CF, especially since Adobe published an IDE survey a few months back and the criticisms I've read on the lack of a quality IDE (not sure of the stuff about CFEclipse is founded or not, but I guess everyone's expectations and needs are different).

It would have been nice to see new features in DW such as improved reliability (crashes and freezing) and intellisense or whatever that word is to describe autocompletion of your own functions and variables that you've defined in your code.
# Posted By Gary Fenton | 5/27/08 9:52 AM
@Gary: I think the prevailing thought in the community is that if Adobe does create an IDE for ColdFusion, it'll be a separate product (i.e. not Dreamweaver). Dreamweaver still needs to cater to web designers and developers who aren't necessarily programmers.

Personally, I'm pretty happy with CFEclipse and will probably stick with that, but I do intend to check out this Dreamweaver beta to see how these new features work.
# Posted By Brian Swartzfager | 5/27/08 2:07 PM
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