CS4 Dreamweaver is art-intelligent, meaning it hiotches creative effort with intuitive CS4 package inclusions. The equivalent in EW2 would be say, a popup spreadsheet when you go to morph your sencond illustration on the sdame page – lol. However CS4 has another cool event, which is display of CSS threading in a document. Not to worry, all you spreadsheet poopers! Just dl the free Safari for Windows, add Safari to your EW browser list, and preview yourt page in Safari – using right-click you can get enough CSS threading information to fill a dozen spreadsheets!

EW2 is not sluggish at all. If you are code-saavy, or try to be, you will really enjoy warping your creative processes through code, split and design views. Cool thing is, you can forget Microsoft’s anally retentive indulgence of bitmaps and gifs and option png and jpg – better still you can set your own high standards for image quality in your fav graphic editor and …OOOPS! Seems EW2 has a little poblem with understanding that designers have unique abilities when working screen outputs. EW2 Beta simply crashed trying to save a reset image. Final release also throws in that damn NET 3.0 crutch as a seperate and uncoordinated necessary install.

Both CS4 and EW2 do not understand teh meaning of the word accessible. For me it means this, you have people who are, say, half blind. They want a product that assists their visual facility. They also want a product that integrates standard equipment used by blind people, including things like, say, automatic cross platform aditory plugins. Dah. Even a few basics? Please!

Thing with EW2 is you are not really looking for support from Microsoft. Turns out your manufacture is gifted by a bunch of Mac-Linux-Windows misfits who manage customer complaints and requests like an A-type recipient handles B-type and C-type blood transfussions: not too well. I should probably close with something equally detracting for Adobe, but …ah well, got to go! It’s a crazy world, if you think it out carefully. It ALL crazy.