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Blandford Fly wrote:

don't know if this has been posted:

http://www.macrumors.com/

something about ilife 06 and iWeb...or something

discuss

http://www.apple.com/support/garageband/podcasts/

it's even on the apple site... look under "Additional resources"

Meh... I hate wysiwyg editors. They are invairably a pain and create crap code that pollutes the internet with non-standard webpages.

That said, Apple can do whatever they wish. They just better continue to make improvments to the apps I do use, iMovie, iDVD and iPhoto. This will just make 2/5 programs i never use instead of 1/4.

Last edited by ctachme (2006-01-05 7:56 pm)

YES! I predicted this!

I wrote:

A consumer level graphic design app would be great
or a web design app, to make complex websites easily

http://www.macaddict.com/forums/topic/74058

This is a great move for apple to make, if they pull it off. They need to have the right mix between ease of use and advanced functions of the app

Well this is probably the reason for .Mac's upgrade in bandwidth.

Of course many power users are going to hate this program.  But even if Apple made a great webpage application, would many users use it in favor of dreamweaver, BBedit or whichever program they already like?  Probably not.  But the causal home users and even some pro-sumers will love an app like this –if, as wpholmes said, Apple can pull it off and gets the balance right. 

As someone who has used FCP for years, I don't get very excited about updates to iMovie but I still see their significance to Apple's market and know tons of people who will get great use out of it.

If iWeb is anything close to what it's rumored to be (with PHP and MySQL support integrated into a beefed up .Mac), then that will go a long way into helping me launch a few websites I've had on the back burner for a while.

It will hopefully also prompt me to blog and podcast some more, as well.

The main hindrance for all of those things for me has been lack of technical prowess. If iWeb simplifies the technical part, it will allow me to concentrate on content, which is my strength anyway.

ctachme wrote:

Meh... I hate wysiwyg editors. They are invairably a pain and create crap code that pollutes the internet with non-standard webpages.

Not every editor spews out the garbage that FrontPage and Word put out.  Dreamweaver is awesome, and can even tell you what problems your page will cause in various browsers.

hawaiian717 wrote:

ctachme wrote:

Meh... I hate wysiwyg editors. They are invairably a pain and create crap code that pollutes the internet with non-standard webpages.

Not every editor spews out the garbage that FrontPage and Word put out.  Dreamweaver is awesome, and can even tell you what problems your page will cause in various browsers.

Yeah, if it gets me off NVU (Mozilla/Netscape composer), I'll be very happy!

"Hey Goof: Frames are not supported since they usually enclose Windows!"

ctachme wrote:

Meh... I hate wysiwyg editors. They are invairably a pain and create crap code that pollutes the internet with non-standard webpages.

I take it you have not used Freeway 4, either Pro or Express.... It produces W3C compliant code and yet is still truely WYSIWYG. In fact, it feel just like and iLife program yet is extremely powerful!!


Freeway Pro

jaxbrokenheart wrote:

Maybe Apple will do something like this.
"Warning: Your iSite uses Comic Sans.  This is just really poor taste."
"Forbidden: iWeb does not allow you to use <blink> in any part of your iSite."
"Hey moron: Stop using all those stupid GIFs!"

That would certainly make me feel a lot better about Apple.

macanoid wrote:

I take it you have not used Freeway 4, either Pro or Express.... It produces W3C compliant code and yet is still truely WYSIWYG. In fact, it feel just like and iLife program yet is extremely powerful!!

I thought I had heard, though, that Pages can export HTML and that it made crap code. If this is true (I can't remeber where I heard it), then if Apple has no respect for standards in one App, why should we expect it in any other app?

This could be interesting.