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Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX With CrossOver Office

Posted by timothy on from the dwindling-excuses dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Dreamweaver == bloat by grosa · · Score: 1, Redundant

    down by the Flash/custom tags/CSS/ECMAScript crap that pollutes the Information Superhighway these days.

    you're either missing the point of CSS, or you've never really seen what it can do. CSS is great for trimming _down_ the size of a page. instead of having font tags everywhere, you can easily assign blocks of text that behave according to the specification. color, font, style, alignment, etc. instead of having tons of nested tables to make sure everything fits, you can do it all with a few blocks of css.

    now if only IE supported css correctly, we could actually see some cool uses of it that aren't broken to be compatible with IE.

    while i'm probably going to get my head chewed off for saying this, flash has the same value. when you really need to have a multimedia presentation up, it sure beats having to write a java app. you don't necessarily need to make your whole site out of flash, or having stupid flash ads. doing things like 3d-models of cell phones or is perfect for flash. it used to be that you used quicktime vr for that, but why have a bizillion different plugins for doing tons of stuff that one flash plugin can do?

  2. excellent - but note it's only bronze support by alexander+m · · Score: 2, Redundant

    along with photoshop, macromedia products have been the most requested for codeweavers support, bar none, so this is excellent news... (btw, all you dreamweaver-bashers; yes, flash is often a bad idea, but no dreamweaver doesn't produce bloated code unless you have no idea what you're doing ;-) )

    however, note that dreamweaver/flash are only at 'bronze medal' status
    bronze applications generally have enough bugs that we recommend that our customers not depend on their functionality.
    still good, as they promise to bring all bronze apps up to silver in future versions, but don't all you web designers delete that windows partition quite yet ;)