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After giving up on WebObjects becuase of cost and lack of small guy support and DW4 for lack of OSX support, I am quite happy with GoLive 6. I don't use it for JSP, just down and dirty php/mysql stuff. I find the libraries easy to use and well integrated. It's missing some things I would like, such as session variable lists, but I understand the difficulty of trying to track an item on the page you're editing when it might be created on some other page. Enough a problem for programmers, let alone tool makers.
I'd be interested to hear comments from MX'ers out there.
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I've always preferred Dreamweaver because, IMHO, it writes cleaner code and i have to do less in BBEdit before posting to the web. Golive has a bad habit of severely nesting tables instead of optimizing the layout. Dreamweaver, seems to handle it much better and with more elegance. As far as PHP coding, i always end up doing this myself. I mean, i'll layout a form in DW but i always have to have my hands on the code to get it done right. Plus, after writing your own code snippets, you can easily save them for later and cut paste where needed. Especially if you are writing them as objects that can be called later.
my2cents,
-VB
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Yea, but I bought GL so I wouln't have to do my own php coding. Other than server side validation, it handles search, display, inserts and multiple record updates with the standard bindings palettes. No code writing. I may need some custom SQL to build multitable queries, but that can be done in the palettes. Server side validation can be done with a simple validate and forward technique. So the only code I write is usually that stuff. I do not want to be managing my own code libraries a whole lot.
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I prefer GoLive to Dreamweaver for a variety of reasons, but one thing that REALLY p*sses me off is that it doesn't know how to handle filenames with more than 31 characters. Long filenames get corrupted when uploaded to the server. Grrr.... :evil:
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