In my opinion, Studio 8 from Macromedia is hardly worth raising an eyebrow for.
I just ran the 30 day versions of Dreamweaver and Fireworks. One did something better (the built in browser in Dreamweaver much more closely rendered a page) and one did something worse (the ability to preview effects to be applied to objects in Fireworks - now you only see the effect if you hover over its name).
Add to this that if you were a sap (it seems) and decided to invest in the expensive version of Studio MX 2004 - the Flash Professional one (yes, I did), then now you get no benefit / discount. Anyone upgrading from any version is now treated the same it seems.
Is it me or does this hardly-worth-a-new-version-number release seem like a smash and grab (sell some software) before the takeover by Adobe? (am I now that cynical?).
Unless I am convinced otherwise, I will stick with Studio MX 2004 and my now gorgeous external CSS editor, TopStyle Pro, which leaves Dreamweaver as a glorified text editor and FTP engine/site manager (which it is really good for). I dropped my ‘obsession’ with DRMX a while ago and now happily use it as noted and use browsers to test code and TopStyle to design, so I guess I am dissinterested in how DRMX renders now, so sorry DRMX v8 - I’m not even interested in one of your improvements.
I should stress that I have not fully tested Studio 8, so who knows, perhaps I’m missing the point?
