The GoLive inspector
What’s wrong with Adobe’s web editor?
Being a fan of Adobe’s marvellous graphics applications like Photoshop and Illustrator, a few years ago I decided to also use Adobe software for my web designs. Instead of following the mainstream by using Macromedia Dreamweaver, I opted for Adobe GoLive.
It became a very disappointing experience. Back in the days of version 5.0, the program was full of nasty bugs, very unstable, and hard to use. It was not at all at the level of the other Adobe products.
For a few months, I published some of my findings on the Internet, under the title ‘The GoLive Inspector’.
Then came GoLive 6.0. In some ways, it was better than 5.0. On the other hand, quite a few new bugs showed up. I didn’t feel like updating my pages with all this new information however, and not wanting to present out-of-date stuff, I removed ‘The GoLive Inspector’.
And now there are two more versions. GoLive is now called GoLive CS, and it became part of the ‘Creative Suite’. Version 7.0 belonged to the first version of Creative Studio. GoLive 8.0, or CS2, was part of the second one. Web editing plays a key role in Adobe’s new marketing strategy. But, sad as it may be, GoLive 7.0 and 8.0 are still not up to Adobe’s standards.
In fact, they are still pretty lousy products.
So here it is: The GoLive inspector, revisited, a few pages chock-full of bugs and quirks I found in the most recent versions of GoLive. I take them to the web in the faint hope that ever, hopefully in the not too distant future, Adobe manages to create a web editor which is up to the same standards as it shows in the other products.
