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April 17, 2005

Dreamweaver's UI idiocy

I just downloaded Dreamweaver 2004 (v7) and to my amazement, in order to change the default extension from .htm to .html you have to edit an XML file, just as in v6. The Preferences dialog box shows you the current extension but doesn't let you edit it there. Oh no. Go root around in XML.

Dreamweaver preferences dialog

I like Dreamweaver at lot, but what the hell are they thinking over at Macromedia? [Technorati tag: dreamweaver]

Posted by D. Weinberger at April 17, 2005 08:57 AM


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I hope they shaved $5 off the company's price tag for that.

Adobe to Buy Macromedia in $3.399B Deal

Posted by: Kurt Starsinic | April 18, 2005 11:37 AM


They are thinking "Jeez I'm gonna make a lot of money when that Adobe merger is announced."

Posted by: RW | April 18, 2005 08:28 PM


They are thinking "Jeez I'm gonna make a lot of money when that Adobe merger is announced."

Posted by: RW | April 18, 2005 08:28 PM


They may be thinking, "I wonder if I'm redundant." ;-)

Posted by: jeneane | April 18, 2005 10:55 PM


I don't know the context behind why a graphical interface did not replace text-editing for control of filename extension spelling. If you'd like I could ask around the shop tomorrow to see if someone has a good history on that.

Regards,
John Dowdell
Macromedia Support

Posted by: John Dowdell | April 19, 2005 02:17 AM


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