Well to be fair that's only 1 type and that particular one in the article there is actually pretty borderline malware. Applications that do what this this article describes, to me, seem like malware. It switches your browser settings and adds shortcuts to your desktop. That's kind of ridiculous. I'm not a fan of Symantec...but in this particular case, I don't really think they were in the wrong.
Agreed. I'm not entirely sure WHAT causes it, but Chrome is much smoother and I get sick of the damn Firefox interface freezing up. They're supposed to be splitting the browser interface from the tabs soon, I here. I'm very interested in that...I think it would help greatly with stability if a tab could freeze without taking down the whole damn browser.
Of course, that still may not fix it simply feeling like a slow piece of crap half the time. I can't quite put my finger on it but even without 2 dozen tabs open, it just kind of runs like crap in general.
What the hell do you have so many tabs open for? Good god man. o_O I use Firefox at work too, and even then I usually keep it down to 10-15 tops. At home, I read things and then close them...I just don't understand how people like you have so many tabs open...why? Why do you have to have that many tabs open?
How does what they did make SOPA look lame? They did a huge investigation and then took the servers down as part of a court order, right? I don't like it, but this is not the same as SOPA. Someone actually brought formal charges after doing an investigation...a pretty large part of what made SOPA so deplorable.
None of the forerunners are electable though...the primaries seem to keep throwing out some of the most insane people the Republican party has to offer. I mean, shit...Ron Paul IS kind of crazy but he looks perfectly normal next to the crazy fucks they have running right now. I mean think about who they had going here...Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry...who the hell really wants to vote for any of those people? Seriously...all this primary has proven to me is that Republican primaries produce insane candidates and that the insane fringes of the Republican party seem to be dictating who gets the nomination. I do not believe that party is actually THAT fucking crazy.
Right, because the proper response isn't to say that no one should have to suffer this kind of technology but to instead use it on the people we don't like. Except that, you know...those same people are the ones who would be in control of whether they had their brains scanned or not. I'm sure they'd all agree to that just like they'll agree on a bill in Congress to ban lobbyists. Right?
And hey, that isn't hypocrisy either. How about we just not scan anyone's brain by force. I'm down for that. You want to know what I'm thinking? Tough shit. The mind is the most private of places and no one deserves to basically have it raped for information. You tell me that isn't basically mental rape. The mere thought of it seriously is creepy as fuck. Like not even funny kind of creepy. I'm just always happy when I see how ridiculously limited things like this are and I hope they can't grow much beyond that. I don't think any rational and logical person would want mind reading.
ATi drivers aren't just dodgy...they are awful. I've had a 4870x2 for a while now and I've seen issues ranging from buggy games, to crashing video drivers playing flash, and green video for flash. I did a completely clean install for the last release and got about 2 days of being able to use Youtube before it started green videoing again. It is truly incredible that they can make a video driver that can't properly play fucking YOUTUBE VIDEOS with hardware acceleration while at the same time being able to play Rage properly (same release...broke Flash and fixed Rage...wtf?).
I'm never buying ATi again. The hardware is great but the drivers are atrocious. I've never experienced the same level of bugginess from an nVidia card. ATi drivers ruin some really beautifully priced hardware and that's really sad. About the only thing they completely kick nVidia's ass at is overscan. I sorely miss having an ATi card on my media center because nVidia's overscan options are fucked. ATi? Drag a slider and the screen moves bigger or smaller...done. NVidia...drag a slider left, right, up, down, etc...sets a custom resolution. Sets normal resolutions to actually go to the custom one. Looks blurry as hell. I end up having to use a resolution that my card considers technically 1080 when I want to play a game on it because that card sure as hell can't handle games at 1080 but if I go to ACTUAL 720 (1280x720)...the screen is stretched off to where I can't see it. Awesome.
This certainly isn't going to make people want to PC game dealing with this kind of bullshit.
Actually the OSS ATI drivers aren't too bad on Linux. I hadn't really messed with any of that stuff before in KDE so when I did my new Arch install, I was surprised by how easy it was to configure all that. I was kind of irritated that hitting apply didn't save my settings and it took me quite some time to figure out there was a separate "save" button somewhere in the display dialogs, but other than that...it's not bad. The only thing that's kind of annoying is the power control. You have to manually set that and the fan up because whatever it has built in is worthless.
Honestly? It wasn't really funny...it was kind of just dumb. I generally get a few chuckles from things around here but I really didn't laugh at all. This wasn't clever in any way. (D-): Would not read again.
This is all completely silly. Everyone that goes to school is learning about discoveries the previous generations made. We build on them, simplify what came before, etc. It all evens out. The fact that you can't understand that puzzles me.
Also, alot is an imaginary creature. A lot is what you are looking for. If you're going to stick it to someone about education, you should probably take care to actually proof read what you are writing a little better.:)
I thought I recognized that name. He was pitcher for the Diamondbacks when we won the World Series (not a huge baseball fan but I live in AZ so yeah). Kind of disappointing to see what a dick head he is on this subject.
I'm not giving away all my information on Facebook to the public. I keep things contained to people I actually know for a reason. Of course even then, I barely post much of anything because there are too many people on there. The fact of the matter though is that I didn't add the FBI to my friends list so they'd damn well better not be viewing my private information. It's not for them to have. I've specifically taken the steps MULTIPLE TIMES (thanks for constantly changing that Facebook, you assholes) to keep the information private. There's nothing particularly sensitive there but that really isn't the point. I said it was private and it had damn well better stay that way. I don't give a shit if it's out on the internet...it was understood that any random person should not be able to see my information when I marked all my profile fields and posts as FRIENDS ONLY.
Yes, that is also a perfectly reasonable solution. It's really easy to just real quick quit and start a new company. You make this sound like you can set it up in a fucking weekend. Are you serious? It turns out that taking your ball and going home is not always a particularly great solution. Not everyone has the time, ambition, or knowledge to start their own company. The fact that you can't start your own company does not mean that the people you are working for should be able to screw you over. That's absurd.
1. I'm not talking about making new laws. I'm talking about enforcing the few good ones that we have so your rants about how stupid people in our government are (and they are, I agree) is pointless. Mr. "Free Market" parent up there was talking about how laws like this are ridiculous and I was pointing out that, actually, they are not.
2. If you're going to insult me and call me a "deluded liberal," then I would suggest you take the time to proof read your post. It is "steal." Steel is a type of metal.
3. Free markets work in theory. Anyone that tries to tell me that in practice what should happen always does happen is clearly not very well versed in history or being completely disingenuous. Companies do bad things. Consumers do not always act rationally. Welcome to the real world. While I understand your views and it would be nice if things did work that way, they simply do not.
4. Liberal isn't actually an insult. If you think it's an insult, you're an asshole. Also, I'm not that liberal. I'm realistic. I understand that in order for a system to function, there needs to be a little bit of this and that to come together. Purely untouched, unregulated, unmonitored capitalism does not work. Remember Rockafeller? Jesus, it's like people ignore what has already happened in the past.
Yeah, and while the people are waiting for this eventual collapse, what then? Oh, right, they're just screwed. What a great solution. Saying to let the market decide ignores the fact that these things take time and people get screwed during that time. Yeah, maybe it will EVENTUALLY sort itself out, but in the mean time, we have to put up with something like this and that is bullshit. Laissez-faire was proven pretty early on to be a completely useless government policy and yet people still trot that out like it's some new insight; it is not unlike like trickle down economics. It doesn't work, we know it doesn't work, and yet people still bring it up as a valid argument.
I'm sorry but I don't think I'd group Steam in with SecuROM on the scale of things that people thought were harmless anti-piracy measures. Even Origin, which is shitty, is basically a copy of Steam with shitty customer service. SecuROM is a shitcake topped with diarrhea. Ubisoft always on is shit. Steam and Origin are actually pretty fair compromises. I get to download my games anywhere, I can share my Steam account with trusted friends for them to try out games, and all I have to do is get online once in a while to activate the games (it has offline mode if you need it).
The only bumps I've hit usually have nothing to do with Steam and have everything to do with the shit that the publisher puts there on TOP of Steam...such as *cringe* Games for Windows Live or...hey...SecuROM.
I wish I could give you like a million mod points for this. I don't know if it's the memory usage or what, but Firefox just runs like shit all the time now. I had a Quad core (Q6600) and 4gb of RAM. There is no sane reason that Firefox should hang and run like shit all the time. I honestly don't care how much memory it uses but it's the fact that it runs like SHIT. You have the exact same experience I do: it hangs all the time. On everything. For no reason...like I'll open a new tab, start to type an address and it HANGS. I load up a website, tab freeze, entire browser becomes unresponsive and I just have to sit and twiddle my thumbs while it works it out.
You even started using Chrome around the same time I did. The interface is like...lightyears ahead of Firefox. I too had previously tried Chrome and not really liked it much, but the slower and slower Firefox got, the more I really took a liking to Chrome. My favorite thing? A website is loaded up with every script on the Planet Earth (eg: Slashdot) and the tab starts to freeze. Solution? Click another tab and do something else while that issue sorts itself out. On Firefox? Sit and wait...hope the browser comes back and doesn't crash. This was one of the most jarring differences for me. The browser interface itself is ALWAYS usable. I can ALWAYS switch to another tab and I can ALWAYS get to the address bar and menus no matter what is happening. I don't know what is so different in Chrome that it is so much faster and usable in general...but Firefox needs to get with the program. I'm hoping that Firefox does what they say they were going to do and separate the browser process from the tabs. That one thing I think would improve Firefox performance across the board because it doesn't matter how fast your page loads are if the browser interface is constantly freezing and hanging.
My one sore loss are the extensions. There are many alternatives but a lot aren't QUITE as good. The best example is ad block. It doesn't block video ads properly anymore like the Firefox version does. They've been improving a bit but at the moment it ONLY seems to block Youtube or if it does block somewhere else, it just breaks the video player. I am however happy to report that a vast majority of the extensions I used in Firefox are either ported to or have an equivalent in Chrome. The only thing I could not find a replacement for is DownThemAll...which sucks because I REALLY love that extension.:(
I'm going to tag a little on to this just to agree. There simply is no equivalent to Dreamweaver in OSS. Nothing holds a candle to it. I feel like I'm sounding like an Adobe salesman in this topic, but honestly...it's a really well made tool. If it worked in Linux, it would be even more perfect. I've used MANY MANY OSS tools for web development and they all kind of suck as a replacement for Dreamweaver. No, I don't want a glorified code editor. No I don't want a tool that gives me like 2 options for formatting text. I basically want Dreamweaver and that's sort of what the op needs to recognize. You don't want something like Dreamweaver...you want Dreamweaver. The interface is perfect, the code cleaner than 90% of the WYSIWYG editors out there, and the code editing window is very well done.
It really is disappointing that no one has an answer to Dreamweaver though. I've been searching for an alternative for years. Every once in a while I get a wild hair up my ass and go on another hunt and usually come up empty handed. Yes, there are some great tools out there...but they just aren't at the same level. You can't really complain though because like the other guy said...OSS developers are making the tools that they want to use. Not what you want to use.
I will say though that I'm getting tired of the snobbishness in this topic. There are uses for these editors that don't involve the user being an idiot that doesn't know how to code. I've been doing it almost 14 years and I still use the editors because they make certain things much easier and bring the whole thing together for me. Yes, I could do every single thing by hand, but that would be a waste of time. I'm not getting superior code for making tables and bolding text when I do it by hand. The people that zealously believe that are just being assholes. There are some things that you need to code by hand so that your code is not a giant shit cake, but a surprising amount of this stuff can be done rather efficiently with the GUI in Dreamweaver. It is easier to select a cell class from a drop-down than it is to remember and type in the extra " class='fancytableclass'>" into your code window. It just is. Especially since I usually do the structure of the page first and then style it afterwards.
The editors have their place for a competent web designer but they've gotten a bad name because they are easily used by people that don't know what they are doing to make very very bad looking websites. These editors are a phenomenal tool for someone that is doing coding and designing at the same time. It helps me do these things a lot quicker than I could otherwise. It's not a matter of not knowing how to code...I'm well versed in HTML and CSS...it's a matter of it doing its job well when used by people who know what they are doing.
This program didn't seem significantly different from KompoZer/Nvu to be honest. It's still kind of a mess...maybe I'll give it another shot. It HAS been a while.
I've tried it. Program doesn't even remotely hold a candle to Dreamweaver. It is a nice effort but it is really not very good. It doesn't even have a place to see your HTML code properly (at least not very easily). There is a little area at the bottom but that isn't even the code for the entire page...program is just kind of a mess.
I've been making and editing web pages for about 14 years now (started in the blink tag years of the 90s when I was 12...I remember Frontpage Express and Frontpage 98 being the tools of the day). WYSIWYG editors still have a place for me. They make the work easier. I can write some code and immediately see an approximation of what it will look like. I can right click in an area and insert a table. Copy and paste a row here, there, etc. In Dreamweaver, I discovered that I could hold ctrl and select every other row in a table and change the CSS class in an instant. That is so helpful that I cannot even begin to tell you how much love I have for the program. It's awesome. I can select a big sentence and bold, italicize, select a different class to use, etc. Doing all of these things by hand takes longer. Anyone says they exclusively do all these things in GUI or Code mode is probably a jackass that wants to brag about how l33tz0rz he is. You use the best tool for the job...not the more elite way of doing it. All GUI makes shit code. All code makes everything a huge pain in the ass. You do a mix of the two and you still get what you want. I code my CSS by hand, obviously, and then I apply things to the page inside the GUI...make adjustments here and there in the code. Going into the code is for doing the complicated things that your editor does not do...but are you going to tell me you want to make tables by hand and sit there and bold/underline text by hand in your code? That's retarded.
I know how to do ALL of these things by hand. Like I said...I've been doing this for a VERY long time...but you know what? Sometimes it is simply faster through the GUI. Sometimes it spits out some nasty code, but then again, Dreamweaver is NOT Frontpage. I actually get some pretty nice clean code from Dreamweaver. I am consistently amazed at what a well written program Dreamweaver actually is. Adobe might overcharge for those programs like nobody's business, but you know...they're good programs (at least Photoshop and Dreamweaver are). It's a bit buggy and crashes on occasion but I mostly attribute that to my work PC being a festering pile of shit. Everything is locked down so tight on this machine that programs don't seem to behave properly.
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From my experience with Canadians...Newfies. :p
If Ubisoft, the company that made/publishes it, isn't getting any money from it...why even buy it in the first place?
Well to be fair that's only 1 type and that particular one in the article there is actually pretty borderline malware. Applications that do what this this article describes, to me, seem like malware. It switches your browser settings and adds shortcuts to your desktop. That's kind of ridiculous. I'm not a fan of Symantec...but in this particular case, I don't really think they were in the wrong.
Agreed. I'm not entirely sure WHAT causes it, but Chrome is much smoother and I get sick of the damn Firefox interface freezing up. They're supposed to be splitting the browser interface from the tabs soon, I here. I'm very interested in that...I think it would help greatly with stability if a tab could freeze without taking down the whole damn browser.
Of course, that still may not fix it simply feeling like a slow piece of crap half the time. I can't quite put my finger on it but even without 2 dozen tabs open, it just kind of runs like crap in general.
What the hell do you have so many tabs open for? Good god man. o_O I use Firefox at work too, and even then I usually keep it down to 10-15 tops. At home, I read things and then close them...I just don't understand how people like you have so many tabs open...why? Why do you have to have that many tabs open?
How does what they did make SOPA look lame? They did a huge investigation and then took the servers down as part of a court order, right? I don't like it, but this is not the same as SOPA. Someone actually brought formal charges after doing an investigation...a pretty large part of what made SOPA so deplorable.
None of the forerunners are electable though...the primaries seem to keep throwing out some of the most insane people the Republican party has to offer. I mean, shit...Ron Paul IS kind of crazy but he looks perfectly normal next to the crazy fucks they have running right now. I mean think about who they had going here...Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry...who the hell really wants to vote for any of those people? Seriously...all this primary has proven to me is that Republican primaries produce insane candidates and that the insane fringes of the Republican party seem to be dictating who gets the nomination. I do not believe that party is actually THAT fucking crazy.
Right, because the proper response isn't to say that no one should have to suffer this kind of technology but to instead use it on the people we don't like. Except that, you know...those same people are the ones who would be in control of whether they had their brains scanned or not. I'm sure they'd all agree to that just like they'll agree on a bill in Congress to ban lobbyists. Right? And hey, that isn't hypocrisy either. How about we just not scan anyone's brain by force. I'm down for that. You want to know what I'm thinking? Tough shit. The mind is the most private of places and no one deserves to basically have it raped for information. You tell me that isn't basically mental rape. The mere thought of it seriously is creepy as fuck. Like not even funny kind of creepy. I'm just always happy when I see how ridiculously limited things like this are and I hope they can't grow much beyond that. I don't think any rational and logical person would want mind reading.
ATi drivers aren't just dodgy...they are awful. I've had a 4870x2 for a while now and I've seen issues ranging from buggy games, to crashing video drivers playing flash, and green video for flash. I did a completely clean install for the last release and got about 2 days of being able to use Youtube before it started green videoing again. It is truly incredible that they can make a video driver that can't properly play fucking YOUTUBE VIDEOS with hardware acceleration while at the same time being able to play Rage properly (same release...broke Flash and fixed Rage...wtf?).
I'm never buying ATi again. The hardware is great but the drivers are atrocious. I've never experienced the same level of bugginess from an nVidia card. ATi drivers ruin some really beautifully priced hardware and that's really sad. About the only thing they completely kick nVidia's ass at is overscan. I sorely miss having an ATi card on my media center because nVidia's overscan options are fucked. ATi? Drag a slider and the screen moves bigger or smaller...done. NVidia...drag a slider left, right, up, down, etc...sets a custom resolution. Sets normal resolutions to actually go to the custom one. Looks blurry as hell. I end up having to use a resolution that my card considers technically 1080 when I want to play a game on it because that card sure as hell can't handle games at 1080 but if I go to ACTUAL 720 (1280x720)...the screen is stretched off to where I can't see it. Awesome.
This certainly isn't going to make people want to PC game dealing with this kind of bullshit.
Actually the OSS ATI drivers aren't too bad on Linux. I hadn't really messed with any of that stuff before in KDE so when I did my new Arch install, I was surprised by how easy it was to configure all that. I was kind of irritated that hitting apply didn't save my settings and it took me quite some time to figure out there was a separate "save" button somewhere in the display dialogs, but other than that...it's not bad. The only thing that's kind of annoying is the power control. You have to manually set that and the fan up because whatever it has built in is worthless.
Honestly? It wasn't really funny...it was kind of just dumb. I generally get a few chuckles from things around here but I really didn't laugh at all. This wasn't clever in any way. (D-): Would not read again.
This is all completely silly. Everyone that goes to school is learning about discoveries the previous generations made. We build on them, simplify what came before, etc. It all evens out. The fact that you can't understand that puzzles me.
:)
Also, alot is an imaginary creature. A lot is what you are looking for. If you're going to stick it to someone about education, you should probably take care to actually proof read what you are writing a little better.
I thought I recognized that name. He was pitcher for the Diamondbacks when we won the World Series (not a huge baseball fan but I live in AZ so yeah). Kind of disappointing to see what a dick head he is on this subject.
I'm not giving away all my information on Facebook to the public. I keep things contained to people I actually know for a reason. Of course even then, I barely post much of anything because there are too many people on there. The fact of the matter though is that I didn't add the FBI to my friends list so they'd damn well better not be viewing my private information. It's not for them to have. I've specifically taken the steps MULTIPLE TIMES (thanks for constantly changing that Facebook, you assholes) to keep the information private. There's nothing particularly sensitive there but that really isn't the point. I said it was private and it had damn well better stay that way. I don't give a shit if it's out on the internet...it was understood that any random person should not be able to see my information when I marked all my profile fields and posts as FRIENDS ONLY.
Yes, that is also a perfectly reasonable solution. It's really easy to just real quick quit and start a new company. You make this sound like you can set it up in a fucking weekend. Are you serious? It turns out that taking your ball and going home is not always a particularly great solution. Not everyone has the time, ambition, or knowledge to start their own company. The fact that you can't start your own company does not mean that the people you are working for should be able to screw you over. That's absurd.
1. I'm not talking about making new laws. I'm talking about enforcing the few good ones that we have so your rants about how stupid people in our government are (and they are, I agree) is pointless. Mr. "Free Market" parent up there was talking about how laws like this are ridiculous and I was pointing out that, actually, they are not.
2. If you're going to insult me and call me a "deluded liberal," then I would suggest you take the time to proof read your post. It is "steal." Steel is a type of metal.
3. Free markets work in theory. Anyone that tries to tell me that in practice what should happen always does happen is clearly not very well versed in history or being completely disingenuous. Companies do bad things. Consumers do not always act rationally. Welcome to the real world. While I understand your views and it would be nice if things did work that way, they simply do not.
4. Liberal isn't actually an insult. If you think it's an insult, you're an asshole. Also, I'm not that liberal. I'm realistic. I understand that in order for a system to function, there needs to be a little bit of this and that to come together. Purely untouched, unregulated, unmonitored capitalism does not work. Remember Rockafeller? Jesus, it's like people ignore what has already happened in the past.
Yeah, and while the people are waiting for this eventual collapse, what then? Oh, right, they're just screwed. What a great solution. Saying to let the market decide ignores the fact that these things take time and people get screwed during that time. Yeah, maybe it will EVENTUALLY sort itself out, but in the mean time, we have to put up with something like this and that is bullshit. Laissez-faire was proven pretty early on to be a completely useless government policy and yet people still trot that out like it's some new insight; it is not unlike like trickle down economics. It doesn't work, we know it doesn't work, and yet people still bring it up as a valid argument.
Seriously...why the hell would you arrest the graphic designer? What the hell would he be guilty of? o_O
I'm sorry but I don't think I'd group Steam in with SecuROM on the scale of things that people thought were harmless anti-piracy measures. Even Origin, which is shitty, is basically a copy of Steam with shitty customer service. SecuROM is a shitcake topped with diarrhea. Ubisoft always on is shit. Steam and Origin are actually pretty fair compromises. I get to download my games anywhere, I can share my Steam account with trusted friends for them to try out games, and all I have to do is get online once in a while to activate the games (it has offline mode if you need it).
The only bumps I've hit usually have nothing to do with Steam and have everything to do with the shit that the publisher puts there on TOP of Steam...such as *cringe* Games for Windows Live or...hey...SecuROM.
I wish I could give you like a million mod points for this. I don't know if it's the memory usage or what, but Firefox just runs like shit all the time now. I had a Quad core (Q6600) and 4gb of RAM. There is no sane reason that Firefox should hang and run like shit all the time. I honestly don't care how much memory it uses but it's the fact that it runs like SHIT. You have the exact same experience I do: it hangs all the time. On everything. For no reason...like I'll open a new tab, start to type an address and it HANGS. I load up a website, tab freeze, entire browser becomes unresponsive and I just have to sit and twiddle my thumbs while it works it out.
:(
You even started using Chrome around the same time I did. The interface is like...lightyears ahead of Firefox. I too had previously tried Chrome and not really liked it much, but the slower and slower Firefox got, the more I really took a liking to Chrome. My favorite thing? A website is loaded up with every script on the Planet Earth (eg: Slashdot) and the tab starts to freeze. Solution? Click another tab and do something else while that issue sorts itself out. On Firefox? Sit and wait...hope the browser comes back and doesn't crash. This was one of the most jarring differences for me. The browser interface itself is ALWAYS usable. I can ALWAYS switch to another tab and I can ALWAYS get to the address bar and menus no matter what is happening. I don't know what is so different in Chrome that it is so much faster and usable in general...but Firefox needs to get with the program. I'm hoping that Firefox does what they say they were going to do and separate the browser process from the tabs. That one thing I think would improve Firefox performance across the board because it doesn't matter how fast your page loads are if the browser interface is constantly freezing and hanging.
My one sore loss are the extensions. There are many alternatives but a lot aren't QUITE as good. The best example is ad block. It doesn't block video ads properly anymore like the Firefox version does. They've been improving a bit but at the moment it ONLY seems to block Youtube or if it does block somewhere else, it just breaks the video player. I am however happy to report that a vast majority of the extensions I used in Firefox are either ported to or have an equivalent in Chrome. The only thing I could not find a replacement for is DownThemAll...which sucks because I REALLY love that extension.
I'm going to tag a little on to this just to agree. There simply is no equivalent to Dreamweaver in OSS. Nothing holds a candle to it. I feel like I'm sounding like an Adobe salesman in this topic, but honestly...it's a really well made tool. If it worked in Linux, it would be even more perfect. I've used MANY MANY OSS tools for web development and they all kind of suck as a replacement for Dreamweaver. No, I don't want a glorified code editor. No I don't want a tool that gives me like 2 options for formatting text. I basically want Dreamweaver and that's sort of what the op needs to recognize. You don't want something like Dreamweaver...you want Dreamweaver. The interface is perfect, the code cleaner than 90% of the WYSIWYG editors out there, and the code editing window is very well done.
It really is disappointing that no one has an answer to Dreamweaver though. I've been searching for an alternative for years. Every once in a while I get a wild hair up my ass and go on another hunt and usually come up empty handed. Yes, there are some great tools out there...but they just aren't at the same level. You can't really complain though because like the other guy said...OSS developers are making the tools that they want to use. Not what you want to use.
I will say though that I'm getting tired of the snobbishness in this topic. There are uses for these editors that don't involve the user being an idiot that doesn't know how to code. I've been doing it almost 14 years and I still use the editors because they make certain things much easier and bring the whole thing together for me. Yes, I could do every single thing by hand, but that would be a waste of time. I'm not getting superior code for making tables and bolding text when I do it by hand. The people that zealously believe that are just being assholes. There are some things that you need to code by hand so that your code is not a giant shit cake, but a surprising amount of this stuff can be done rather efficiently with the GUI in Dreamweaver. It is easier to select a cell class from a drop-down than it is to remember and type in the extra " class='fancytableclass'>" into your code window. It just is. Especially since I usually do the structure of the page first and then style it afterwards.
The editors have their place for a competent web designer but they've gotten a bad name because they are easily used by people that don't know what they are doing to make very very bad looking websites. These editors are a phenomenal tool for someone that is doing coding and designing at the same time. It helps me do these things a lot quicker than I could otherwise. It's not a matter of not knowing how to code...I'm well versed in HTML and CSS...it's a matter of it doing its job well when used by people who know what they are doing.
This program didn't seem significantly different from KompoZer/Nvu to be honest. It's still kind of a mess...maybe I'll give it another shot. It HAS been a while.
I've tried it. Program doesn't even remotely hold a candle to Dreamweaver. It is a nice effort but it is really not very good. It doesn't even have a place to see your HTML code properly (at least not very easily). There is a little area at the bottom but that isn't even the code for the entire page...program is just kind of a mess.
I've been making and editing web pages for about 14 years now (started in the blink tag years of the 90s when I was 12...I remember Frontpage Express and Frontpage 98 being the tools of the day). WYSIWYG editors still have a place for me. They make the work easier. I can write some code and immediately see an approximation of what it will look like. I can right click in an area and insert a table. Copy and paste a row here, there, etc. In Dreamweaver, I discovered that I could hold ctrl and select every other row in a table and change the CSS class in an instant. That is so helpful that I cannot even begin to tell you how much love I have for the program. It's awesome. I can select a big sentence and bold, italicize, select a different class to use, etc. Doing all of these things by hand takes longer. Anyone says they exclusively do all these things in GUI or Code mode is probably a jackass that wants to brag about how l33tz0rz he is. You use the best tool for the job...not the more elite way of doing it. All GUI makes shit code. All code makes everything a huge pain in the ass. You do a mix of the two and you still get what you want. I code my CSS by hand, obviously, and then I apply things to the page inside the GUI...make adjustments here and there in the code. Going into the code is for doing the complicated things that your editor does not do...but are you going to tell me you want to make tables by hand and sit there and bold/underline text by hand in your code? That's retarded.
I know how to do ALL of these things by hand. Like I said...I've been doing this for a VERY long time...but you know what? Sometimes it is simply faster through the GUI. Sometimes it spits out some nasty code, but then again, Dreamweaver is NOT Frontpage. I actually get some pretty nice clean code from Dreamweaver. I am consistently amazed at what a well written program Dreamweaver actually is. Adobe might overcharge for those programs like nobody's business, but you know...they're good programs (at least Photoshop and Dreamweaver are). It's a bit buggy and crashes on occasion but I mostly attribute that to my work PC being a festering pile of shit. Everything is locked down so tight on this machine that programs don't seem to behave properly.
I'm pretty sure all those embedded *Nix devices would have a thing or two to say to Microsoft about the wide spread use of NTFS.