Expression Web 2 Tops Dreamweaver CS4?!
Jun
21
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6/21/2008 7:50 AM
Much maligned due to its poor support for style sheets and numerous bugs, Microsoft's FrontPage still was reasonably friendly by virtue of its WYSIWYG interface and integrated into enterprise SharePoint sites. Its derivative changed names to avoid the poor rep - and with good justification. The next product in this slot, Expression Web, was totally overhauled, supported by a complementary suite of Expression products.
Expression Web 2 is now out and according to PC Mag's latest analysis may even best Adobe's fuller featured Dreamweaver CS4! Nice additions are support for PHP, native Photoshop PSD files, Silverlight (and improved Flash support). Lack of support for secure FTP - and for universal client-side scripting - mars the picture somewhat. This is good news for folks generating web content.
Now if KompoZer, the best open source WYSIWYG HTML editor, could start to approach that level of functionality we could all rejoice!