Microsoft Expression vs. Dreamweaver

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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What a pitty

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I use Dreamweaver for PHP/MySQL/CSS/HTML/JS and a bit of WYSIWYG-style development. It's extremely extensible and you can literally make Dreamweaver interpret, autocomplete, color and display your own made-up language but modifying a bunch of XML-files in its config folder (the changes are then exportable and redistributable as an "extension", sort of like on Firefox).

I see the potential of Microsoft's software. They do great stuff, but they, somewhat like Sony, are too locked up on supporting exclusively and pushing their own solutions in their IDE-s.

This works with C#/C++/VisualBasic in VisualStudio where it's only natural that the targeted platform is Win32/.NET.
It works less well on web, which is more than .NET offers.

But they are a business, they have their right to try whatever they believe will fly, if it doesn't fly, they'll simply readjust their strategy.

Dreamweaver right now is a perfect solution for years to come (Adobe is not frozen in time too).