Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX With CrossOver Office

AstroDrabb writes "It seems that CodeWeavers' CrossOver Office 2.1 now supports Dreamweaver MX and Flash MX. So for those who have been waiting to ditch MS Windows because of these two apps, now is your chance. The announcement from CodeWeavers can be found here and the changelog can be found here. The list of supported applications is also getting pretty impressive."

Comments

Hold your horses about switching

[Heartz]

Both of the apps only have a bronze medal From the crossover site :

Bronze Medal The bronze is awarded to applications that install and run, and that can accomplish some portion of their fundamental mission. However, bronze applications generally have enough bugs that we recommend that our customers not depend on their functionality. The most important aspect of a bronze application is that CodeWeavers makes a firm commitment to bring all bronze applications to the silver level in future releases of CrossOver.

You can't have that if you want to switch and are highly dependant on it. Users will just get frustrated. Both of the apps only have a bronze medal

Re:Hold your horses about switching

[jeremy_white]

We have a policy to always start an application at Bronze level.

We know the reality of Wine - it can be very promising, but fail in important ways. So, we try to help our customers be cautious in their adoption. For example, Photoshop, which actually is one of the very best performing applications in CrossOver (it is in heavy use to make major motion pictures), started at Bronze, and is now only at Silver.

With that said, we have found Dreamweaver to be very complete, with only a few remaining bugs. And we have yet to find a bug in Flash... (but we didn't try as hard there).

Cheers,

Jeremy White CEO CodeWeavers

Re:Dreamweaver == bloat

[PakProtector]

Obviously you know nothing about what CSS is, or are just stupid. Let me enlighten you.

In the beginning, there was the Web.

All was good. Bandwidth was, on average, low, but sites were small and to the point, and loaded quickly.

People began to use frames and many other things, marring the content with style.

But then, in this dark hour, when web pages loaded slowly and all hope was lost, a light appeared in the darkness.

It was CSS.

CSS is based on the idea that content, which is the actual information of a web page, should be entirely seperate from the style of a web page, which is defined by the CSS. If you disable CSS, the webpage should load as plain text and pictures and form elements, no spiffy navigation bar here, no sidebar here. Something that text-readers can understand and that loads very quickly. The CSS file also loads quickly, and by combining the two into one a web page can be made small, while still full of content and aesthetically pleasing.

On 'trendy' lower case tags.

[jonathan_ingram]

4.2. Element and attribute names must be in lower case

XHTML documents must use lower case for all HTML element and attribute names. This difference is necessary because XML is case-sensitive e.g. <li> and <LI> are different tags.

From here.