osgood_ wrote:
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Adobe got hold of DW and virtually sent it into reverse, prefering to align itself with the amatuer market. It's biggest and costliest mistake was to drop the ball as far as server development was concerned. It's really a damn shame that a few suits and boots get hold of something good, wring the most money out of it they can and then hang it out to dry. I believe we are witnessing the slow death of Dreamweaver.
I am sad to say I agree with you. I recall not so long ago when DW was king of the hill. Everyone I knew used it. I and my fellow instructors taught all our programming classes with Dreamweaver.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Remember Quark? Never sit still on your laurels, and keep pushing your software. Fireworks is dead as well. Flash is on its way to be ever more marginalized. Strange how things have turned out over the span of less than a decade for the former Macromedia group of products under the Adobe hegemony.
Having said that, things grow, change, and wither away. It is the natural course of things.