11/11/2022 0 Comments Araxis merge red box![]() ![]() I’ve missed this feature sorely for a long time. It’s back! If you’ve been using Homesite (or, heaven forbid, CF Studio) all this time, it never left but for those of us that moved from CF Studio to Dreamweaver, we’ve missed it.ĭreamweaver 8 offers the ability to collapse the selected tag, or simply the selected text. This feature is particularly handy when you’re commenting and uncommenting large blocks of code. No longer do you have to delete the opening tag, then go to find the closing tag. Select a commented section of code and simply click the "uncomment" button to have the comment tags removed. The uncomment functionality is nice, too. Need multi line JavaScript "/* */"? No problem. Need JavaScript "//" comments? They’re there. Type your comment, select the type of comment tags it needs to be enclosed in, and viola: it’s done. Now you want to drop a number of preformatted types of comments in to your document. The options are there: choose what works best. You want to keep just the paragraph info? Done. Simply Paste Special that copy right into place, and choose from a number of options as to how you’d like the formatting to be handled. ![]() Never again will you have to deal with first cleaning up Word’s crazy text markup. Have you ever received copy from Marketing? From a user with Word? Dreamweaver now has Paste and Paste Special. Here’s the coding toolbar in all its glory: Common and helpful tasks have been placed at our fingertips. The gutter now holds a wealth of handy little widgets that facilitate code collapsing, tag wrapping, comment inserting, select parent tag, and more. ![]() We’ve got features we lost ("we" meaning users of ColdFusion Studio 5) and new features, all of which help those of us who don’t want a WYSIWYG editor, to write better code, faster. First and foremost, for the developer, this installment brings Dreamweaver as close to a coders’ IDE as it’s ever been (it’s been pretty far from a coders IDE for a while now) - closer than I had hoped it would be, in fact. Improvementsĭreamweaver 8 brings a lot to the table. Under the hood, Dreamweaver 8 is a whole new beast. Just looking at the app, version 8 is very much like MX 2004, but that’s where the similarities end. The panels are all about the same, located in the same place, and the toolbars and tabs are the same. Users of the previous version of Dreamweaver will have no trouble jumping right in to version 8. The user experience of Dreamweaver 8 is basically the same as its predecessor. That question answered, I promptly uninstalled Studio MX 2004. So, just in case you wanted to keep both versions (I can’t think of a reason for such a need, myself), you can do so without conflict. Dreamweaver MX 2004 opened right up, no problems. I wasn’t sure if this new version would install over, or alongside the old, though I suspected it would install alongside its predecessors, and I was right. I decided to see what would happen if I installed Studio 8 over Studio MX 2004. I tossed the box on the couch, grabbed my trusty laptop and set about checking this latest and greatest offering from Macromedia. The packaging was first rate, much cleaner and more impressive than the MX 2004 packaging. When I got my review copy of Studio 8, immediately I saved it from that suffocating shrink wrap it came in. ![]()
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