RE: Best OS for HTML authors. (Was: RE: software to change res. w ithout restart.)

by =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= Bergeron <berlar(at)generation.net>

 Date:  Wed, 03 Feb 1999 18:14:14 -0500
 To:  Christian Lavoie <clavoie(at)enter-net.com>
 Cc:  hwg-software(at)hwg.org
 References:  OH0012EXCH002U OH0012EXCH002U2
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At 04:38 PM 03/02/99 +0000, you wrote:
>More or less agreeing... Allaire mentionned they would be porting=20
>ColdFusion to Linux.=20

Correct, Cold Fusion Server will be ported to UNIX with the next version
(5.0) but I'm not sure if Cold Fusion Studio will be as well.

Once that's done, I hardly see any reason why=20
>Homesite wouldn't be ported too (from what I understand, Homesite is=20
>just a REALLY stripped down version of ColdFusion). And that's...=20
>well.... a very great tool, IMHO.=20

HomeSite will NOT be ported to UNIX in the foreseeable future.  This as
been stated countless times in Allaire's user forums in the last few
months.  They argue a lack of consumer demand to justify the costs of
porting HomeSite from Delphi to Linux... this much to the chagrin of many
people on the forums.

Secondly, HomeSite is NOT a really stripped down version of CF Studio.  Up
until HS 2.5, HomeSite was developed by a single individual (Nick Bradbury)
and had supported a limited set of CF tags and features from the get go.
Nick Bradbury then joined Allaire and supervised as well as participated in
the development of HomeSite 3.0  and CF Studio 3.0 who owes more to
HomeSite in terms of UI and Web development features than the other way
around.  Of course CF Studio is the tool of choice to develop Cold Fusion
Web applications because it supports all the Cold Fusion features and tags,
etc.  As far as "normal" Web development goes, they are more alike than
they are different though... except when it comes to their respective
prices ;-)   =20

St=E9phane Bergeron

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