Posted 23 years ago
by Webhead
- Denver, Colorado
Hi all:
I've tried your product and liked it very much (long time user of Dreamweaver/Homesite). I've come across a few problems as a web developer which no single software title has yet solved, but which would make me a fanatical follower if they were to be incorporated: code debugging.
As it now stands, I'm forced to use three different (but similar) products to debug code. Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 for Javascript, Visual InterDev 6 for ASP, and ColdFusion Studio 4.52 for ColdFusion.
At $400 per title approximately, that's a substantial investment. UltraDev is the most versatile and has the WYSIWYG interface, plus a slew of premade extensions for just about every major platform but isn't much better than Notepad for hard-coding by hand. It does have the JS debugger though (v4.0 only).
InterDev is just crap, except for its debugger for VBscript.
I could code CF in any text editor, but being able to debug anything complex is essential and Studio is the only product with it for CF. For everything that it does (its basically Homesite with full CF support and an awesome debugger), there is no JavaScript debugger.
I would pay hefty cash to have debugging capability for all three in the same piece of software (and the debuggers are basically the same in their use and functionality). I don't think I (or many) CF coders would use Studio if there were a cheaper, but equally functional alternative (and you're so close with what you have now).
I realize it's a complex feature, but I still don't understand that there are almost no editors with at least a JavaScript debugger. Who ever wrote their own script without any need for debugging?
For the moment, though, the lack of these important features keeps me from buying your product because I need those functions. Something to think about.
Cheers <IMG SRC="wink.gif" border="0">
I've tried your product and liked it very much (long time user of Dreamweaver/Homesite). I've come across a few problems as a web developer which no single software title has yet solved, but which would make me a fanatical follower if they were to be incorporated: code debugging.
As it now stands, I'm forced to use three different (but similar) products to debug code. Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 for Javascript, Visual InterDev 6 for ASP, and ColdFusion Studio 4.52 for ColdFusion.
At $400 per title approximately, that's a substantial investment. UltraDev is the most versatile and has the WYSIWYG interface, plus a slew of premade extensions for just about every major platform but isn't much better than Notepad for hard-coding by hand. It does have the JS debugger though (v4.0 only).
InterDev is just crap, except for its debugger for VBscript.
I could code CF in any text editor, but being able to debug anything complex is essential and Studio is the only product with it for CF. For everything that it does (its basically Homesite with full CF support and an awesome debugger), there is no JavaScript debugger.
I would pay hefty cash to have debugging capability for all three in the same piece of software (and the debuggers are basically the same in their use and functionality). I don't think I (or many) CF coders would use Studio if there were a cheaper, but equally functional alternative (and you're so close with what you have now).
I realize it's a complex feature, but I still don't understand that there are almost no editors with at least a JavaScript debugger. Who ever wrote their own script without any need for debugging?
For the moment, though, the lack of these important features keeps me from buying your product because I need those functions. Something to think about.
Cheers <IMG SRC="wink.gif" border="0">
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Webhead
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