Monthly Archive for March, 2009

So apparently, Dreamweaver is dying. This article is interesting to me for a couple reasons. First of all, I’m happy that other people are finally saying what I’ve been thinking since I started making dynamic websites with Perl and PHP in the late nineties! I’ve played around with HTML editors a bit, but I’ve never found them to be of much use on a dynamic Internet. I guess I just assumed that some people were using HTML editors for rapid prototyping, and I figured that maybe they could be helpful when editing the HTML template files used to dynamically create pages. But this article makes it sound like HTML editors are still mostly used to create static websites (static as in “just a bunch of .html files”). Seriously? It’s 2009, and web “developers” are still doing that? Holy shit, I am shocked, saddened and completely baffeled at the same time!