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Dan Pouliot's site (www.webmastermac.com) used to have a wonderful article
comparing FrontPage 2000 and Dreamweaver 4. The article was written in 2002
for Mac users, but most of its points were relevant for PCs as well. I'm
lucky that I saved the article locally, because it seems to have disappeared
from Dan's site and from the Web in general.
The introduction includes this classic line: "If an IT manager recommends a
Microsoft solution and the solution fails, it's Microsoft's fault, but if
the IT manager recommends any other solution and it fails, it's the IT
manager's fault."
Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Willebeek-LeMair
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:27 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: GoLive vs. Dreamweaver
>
> You know, all you people talking about FrontPage doing funky
> things to the
> HTML code must not have used it since FP97. In the past, I
> refused to use
> it because of the things it did with HTML. Now, I use it for
> all sorts of
> 1-off HTML tasks (stuff that I need to blast out but not
> really maintain,
> like meeting minutes). Code is standard HTML. Although, I
> must confess, I
> use the quick character formatting rather than styles for this type of
> document. Why? Because it just does not matter for the
> intended purpose.
> Also, looking at the options in FP2002, it looks like I can
> even customize
> how tags are inserted (indentation, space before/after, tag
> closing, etc.)
> on a per-tag basis. Very cool...
