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231 points urin | 5 comments | 14 Oct 24 01:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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vivzkestrel ◴[14 Oct 24 03:52 UTC] No.41834021[source]▶
Are we trying to reinvent web development? Last few years have been wild. We abandoned HTML CSS and JS websites that used to work just fine and ran after frontend component frameworks and now the circle is getting completed by building tools and extensions we had 20 yrs ago
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urin ◴[14 Oct 24 04:19 UTC] No.41834134[source]▶
There are complex reasons behind my development of this. To be honest, I don’t think the editing functionality of this tool is particularly useful. I believe the real-time preview and element selection features are the ones that offer broader utility. I am considering making the editing feature disabled by default and allowing it to be enabled through settings in the future.
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1. pjerem ◴[14 Oct 24 05:43 UTC] No.41834544[source]▶
I don’t think it was meant to criticize your work :)

It’s just fun to see that we (here : you) are reinventing tools that everyone used 20 or 30 years ago.

I remember making my first websites in Dreamweaver. I remember it being hated by "pro" developers but this plus an FTP client (which was integrated IIRC) was enough for teenager me to be live on the internet.

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2. a57721 ◴[14 Oct 24 05:57 UTC] No.41834624[source]▶
The nostalgia hit me, I remember before Dreamweaver, there was Netscape Composer, W3C Amaya, and similar software.
3. darreninthenet ◴[14 Oct 24 06:45 UTC] No.41834860[source]▶
How is Dreamweaver these days?
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4. captn3m0 ◴[14 Oct 24 07:21 UTC] No.41835067[source]▶
part of creative cloud, $20/mo. Last update May 2024 https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/whats-new.html
5. hashtag-til ◴[14 Oct 24 08:25 UTC] No.41835435[source]▶
I came here to comment about Macromedia Dreamweaver (at the time I used it). It was an ok software for the time. Acceptable WYSIWYG.