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DJ
Hi,

I am doing a project in a software industry and will appreciate your
help in answering these quick questions.

-What current Adobe/Macromedia products do you use?
-Over the next 6-12 months, what other products are you thinking of
buying through Adobe/Macromedia?
-Are you thinking of using other vendors' products? Which ones & why?
-Any specific issues you find in Adobe/Macromedia products?
-Are you using any open-source products in conjunction with
Adobe/Macromedia? Which ones and why?
-How do you compare Flash and Dreamweaver with AJAX? Which one do you
like better?

Thank for your time.
Best Regards,

Dale

Aug 7 '06 #1
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On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:25:10 -0700, DJ wrote:
Hi,

I am doing a project in a software industry and will appreciate your
help in answering these quick questions.

-What current Adobe/Macromedia products do you use?
None.
-Over the next 6-12 months, what other products are you thinking of
buying through Adobe/Macromedia?
None.
-Are you thinking of using other vendors' products? Which ones & why?
No.
-Any specific issues you find in Adobe/Macromedia products?
I don't use them.
-Are you using any open-source products in conjunction with
Adobe/Macromedia? Which ones and why?
No.
-How do you compare Flash and Dreamweaver with AJAX? Which one do you
like better?
One is a combination of technologies being used together and the other is
a product... so I don't compare them.

You might as well ask how do you compare Dreamweaver to a water buffalo.
--
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Feingold-Obama '08 - Because the Constitution isn't history,
It's the law.

Aug 7 '06 #2
"DJ" <dj****@yahoo.comwrites:
I am doing a project in a software industry and will appreciate your
help in answering these quick questions.

-What current Adobe/Macromedia products do you use?
Acrobat Viewer.
-Over the next 6-12 months, what other products are you thinking of
buying through Adobe/Macromedia?
None.
-Are you thinking of using other vendors' products? Which ones & why?
For what? I'm planning on buying software, yes.
For web authoring ... probably none.
-Any specific issues you find in Adobe/Macromedia products?
N/A
-Are you using any open-source products in conjunction with
Adobe/Macromedia? Which ones and why?
N/A
-How do you compare Flash and Dreamweaver with AJAX? Which one do you
like better?
I don't. They are not really comparable. AJAX is a way of moving data
from a server to a client without causing a page refresh. I hope
Flash and/or Dreamweaver is a lot more than that.
/L
--
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen - lr*@hotpop.com
DHTML Death Colors: <URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/rasterTriangleDOM.html>
'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'
Aug 7 '06 #3

"DJ" <dj****@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@b28g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
Hi,

I am doing a project in a software industry and will appreciate your
help in answering these quick questions.

-What current Adobe/Macromedia products do you use?
ColdFusion MX
ColdFusion Studio
HomeSite+
Fireworks
Flash 8
Acrobat 7
-Over the next 6-12 months, what other products are you thinking of
buying through Adobe/Macromedia?
ColdFusion 8 (if available)
-Are you thinking of using other vendors' products? Which ones & why?
Um... yeah. Why? Because I use other vendors products. Microsoft Windows
and Office, CorelDRAW!, Eclipse, Nero and dozens of others.

Perhaps the question might be made more specific?
-Any specific issues you find in Adobe/Macromedia products?
I'm still annoyed at the relegation of event gateways as an enterprise-only
in ColdFusion but other than that, not much.

My biggest issue is a sin of omission: specifically the dropping of
code-specific editors like CF Studio and HomeSite+ for the much more
expensive and heavy DreamWeaver.
-Are you using any open-source products in conjunction with
Adobe/Macromedia? Which ones and why?
Yes.

Eclipse 3.x with CFEclipse as a ColdFusion IDE.
Several open-source CF applications and components such as Galleon and
CFWiki (both by Ray Camden).
-How do you compare Flash and Dreamweaver with AJAX? Which one do you
like better?
Um... what?

I'm sorry, but the question makes no sense. Flash (a specific vendor
product) can be said to do most of what AJAX (a family of general
programming techniques) does (or vice versa) but at the same time Flash can
use AJAX or AJAX can use Flash in a complementary manner.

Dreamweaver is an IDE and really has nothing in common with either Flash
(unless you're talking specifically about the Flash IDE) or AJAX. You can
use DreamWeaver to write AJAX applications or, in fact, to write Flash
applications.

It just doesn't seem useful to compare them. The phrase "Apples and
oranges" comes to mind.

Jim Davis
Aug 7 '06 #4

DJ wrote:
Hi,

I am doing a project in a software industry and will appreciate your
help in answering these quick questions.

-What current Adobe/Macromedia products do you use?
Only the free ones to view pages made by others that use the pay
products.
-Over the next 6-12 months, what other products are you thinking of
buying through Adobe/Macromedia?
none
-Are you thinking of using other vendors' products? Which ones & why?
I use a lot of media products, and many of them are free or cost little
these days. For example you can get free encoders for audio and video
from Microsoft and Real, because they both want their formats to be
used.
-Any specific issues you find in Adobe/Macromedia products?
They use much code that is not standards compliant at the W3C. They are
in good company in that respect with Microsoft and Real. However, for
example, SWF codes are even more difficult to clean up to valid html
than are most other media formats.

-Are you using any open-source products in conjunction with
Adobe/Macromedia? Which ones and why?
NA
-How do you compare Flash and Dreamweaver with AJAX? Which one do you
like better?
About as I compare apples with oranges. I don't use Dreamweaver and do
not plan to do so. I write most code the old fashioned way - by hand.
While some fancy tools may speed up writing, I often find it takes
longer than they save to clean up some of the invalid code they often
write.

Aug 7 '06 #5
Ray

DJ wrote:
Hi,

I am doing a project in a software industry and will appreciate your
help in answering these quick questions.

-What current Adobe/Macromedia products do you use?
The reader and the reader for Pocket PC
-Over the next 6-12 months, what other products are you thinking of
buying through Adobe/Macromedia?
None. OpenOffice generates PDF for me.
-Are you thinking of using other vendors' products? Which ones & why?
You mean for web development? VIM mostly. www.vim.org
-Any specific issues you find in Adobe/Macromedia products?
Ain't free? :) Seriously, never find any compelling reason to use them.
I generate PDF, I code Web UI, and so on without Adobe. Never do Flash
though.
-Are you using any open-source products in conjunction with
Adobe/Macromedia? Which ones and why?
VIM! It's free, blazing fast, and it's... well, VIM.
-How do you compare Flash and Dreamweaver with AJAX? Which one do you
like better?
I can't compare them, but I like AJAX better obviously, because I'm
using AJAX and I ain't using Flash/DreamWeaver :) (but yeah it's like
comparing a watermelon with an AK-47).
>
Thank for your time.
Best Regards,

Dale
Aug 8 '06 #6

"DJ" <dj****@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@b28g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
Hi,

I am doing a project in a software industry and will appreciate your
help in answering these quick questions.

-What current Adobe/Macromedia products do you use?
Homesite
-Over the next 6-12 months, what other products are you thinking of
buying through Adobe/Macromedia?
None
-Are you thinking of using other vendors' products? Which ones & why?
No
-Any specific issues you find in Adobe/Macromedia products?
No
-Are you using any open-source products in conjunction with
Adobe/Macromedia? Which ones and why?
No
-How do you compare Flash and Dreamweaver with AJAX? Which one do you
like better?
Don't know Flash or Dreamweaver but use AJAX a lot and like it.
>
Thank for your time.
Best Regards,

Dale

Aug 8 '06 #7
On 2006-08-07 19:25:10 +0200, "DJ" <dj****@yahoo.comsaid:
Hi,
Hi there,
>
I am doing a project in a software industry and will appreciate your
help in answering these quick questions.

-What current Adobe/Macromedia products do you use?
None.
-Over the next 6-12 months, what other products are you thinking of
buying through Adobe/Macromedia?
None.
-Are you thinking of using other vendors' products? Which ones & why?
Not really... For web authoring, I m only using gvim, inkscape and some
firefox extensions.
I think that quoting other softwares will be irrelevant for your survey...
-Any specific issues you find in Adobe/Macromedia products?
Not really since I don't use any of them.
-Are you using any open-source products in conjunction with
Adobe/Macromedia? Which ones and why?
Nop.
Only using open source products in 'disjunction' with A/M...
-How do you compare Flash and Dreamweaver with AJAX? Which one do you
like better?
I can't ... understand that question. But I do like AJAX, if anyone cares ...
>
Thank for your time.
Best Regards,

Dale

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Aug 8 '06 #8
DJ said the following on 8/7/2006 1:25 PM:
Hi,

I am doing a project in a software industry and will appreciate your
help in answering these quick questions.
Looks more like a Adobe/MM survey.
-What current Adobe/Macromedia products do you use?
None, I prefer reliable dependable software.
-Over the next 6-12 months, what other products are you thinking of
buying through Adobe/Macromedia?
None, as "other products" means I would have to buy the first one.
-Are you thinking of using other vendors' products? Which ones & why?
Am I "thinking" about it? No, I am doing it.

Why? Quality.
-Any specific issues you find in Adobe/Macromedia products?
Other than the lack of quality in anything MM programs produce?
-Are you using any open-source products in conjunction with
Adobe/Macromedia? Which ones and why?
No, as I don't use Adobe/Macromedia products. Not even a Flash plugin.
-How do you compare Flash and Dreamweaver with AJAX? Which one do you
like better?
I won't explain that comparison as it has already been explained about 8
times. But I will say this. If you are asking that question, then it has
to be wondered what kind of job you actually have in the software
industry where the comparison in that question isn't already known to be
ludicrous.

But for the record, I prefer Comet to Ajax - it cleans better.

--
Randy
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq & newsgroup weekly
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/
Aug 8 '06 #9
DJ wrote:
>
-What current Adobe/Macromedia products do you use?
Adobe Reader (free)
-Over the next 6-12 months, what other products are you thinking of
buying through Adobe/Macromedia?
None
-Are you thinking of using other vendors' products? Which ones & why?
Yes. Open standards.
-Any specific issues you find in Adobe/Macromedia products?
Yes - too expensive, too proprietary.
-Are you using any open-source products in conjunction with
Adobe/Macromedia? Which ones and why?
No - I use them *instead* of Adobe and Macromedia.
-How do you compare Flash and Dreamweaver with AJAX? Which one do you
like better?
Irrelevant - the technologies are compatible and complementary but
different and serve different purposes.
Aug 8 '06 #10
DJ wrote:
Hi,

I am doing a project in a software industry and will appreciate your
help in answering these quick questions.

-What current Adobe/Macromedia products do you use?
Adobe Acrobat
-Over the next 6-12 months, what other products are you thinking of
buying through Adobe/Macromedia?
-Are you thinking of using other vendors' products? Which ones & why?
-Any specific issues you find in Adobe/Macromedia products?
-Are you using any open-source products in conjunction with
Adobe/Macromedia? Which ones and why?
Macromedia Flash is not available for my 64bit Linux.
-How do you compare Flash and Dreamweaver with AJAX? Which one do you
like better?
eh?
>
Thank for your time.
Best Regards,

Dale
Aug 16 '06 #11

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