Microsoft Expression vs. Dreamweaver

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday September 2, 2006 @07:41AM from the drink-the-kool-aid dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Informit has a quick look at Microsoft's Expression suite consisting of Graphic Designer, Interactive Designer, and Web Designer in comparison to Dreamweaver. It seems that Microsoft got tired of relying on FrontPage and is actually going after professionals. From the article: 'What designers might not realize is that Microsoft finally drank the Kool-Aid. The Expression Web Designer application walks the Web standards walk. One caution: Web Designer currently only supports ASP.NET. Microsoft built the ASP.NET platform; it isn't a surprise that Expression Web Designer was designed to support that platform. This is obviously a drawback for those designers who work with PHP, JSP, and other non-ASP.NET platforms, making it difficult for Microsoft to expand its reach beyond the ASP.NET users.'"

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Opposite meaning of "drinking the Kool-Aid"? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-02 08:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I thought "drinking the Kool-Aid" meant that you have blind faith in an irrational mindset, like committing mass suicide. For Microsoft to become aware of the real world around them, they would have to stop drinking the Kool-Aid.
Re:It's about what, no how by SoSueMe · 2006-09-02 09:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The contradiction lies in the defaults of VS 200#.Net.
When the default in your IDE is to client side scripting, you are no longer in a true ASP environment. In fact, any concessions to accessibility in VS 2003 were only implemented in SP1. They were also disabled by default.
The IDE itself is not usable by programmers with disabilities. MS has chosen to leave making the program accessible to "third parties".

GIGO-Garbage In Garbage Out.