[Gllug] Flash and Dreamweaver going to port for Linux

[Rob Crowther]

Richard Jones wrote:
> is much easier to use than that DEC mainframe horror.  I really don't
> believe that people will find it hard to use.  I'm sure actually
> people will find it's easier because there's much less that can go
> wrong,

I think there's a difference between actually being easy to use and 
looking like it's easier to use, which the existence of Windows is a 
testament to.  And it's not really that people are completely stupid, 
more that if they had the sort of mind that paid attention to details 
like closing tags they would have become techies in the first place, 
maybe this relates to the thread about educational standards somewhat - 
people don't learn grammar at school anymore and this restricts their 
ability to learn and adhere to more strict grammars like (X)HTML? 
Probably if I mounted a concerted internal marketing effort I could 
convince people, but then I don't really have time and I do actually 
like using DW for managing the site as a whole (automatically updating 
links when I move/rename files as well as the global search and replace 
stuff and other things I mentioned before).  If DW was available on 
Linux it would basically be one less reason for me to have a dual boot 
machine, I suppose.

> compared to using Word which crashes or some accidental
> keystroke performs some sort of undoable formatting change, etc etc.
> 
Heh, and as they add new 'features' there's even more chance of messing 
stuff up - track changes is now enabled automatically in 2003, we've 
already had a few clients opening up Word docs with red strikethrough 
text detailing work we did for their competitors, but that's another 
story...

Rob
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