[Ti] "mostly" made on a Mac?
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galahad9 at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 18 12:57:03 PST 2003
According to Michael Bigley:
>>Not yet - I am going to add a database connection through MS Access
>>in the near future. Perhaps I should put that on the pages that are
>>created in Front Page. (actually, so far, the pages that will
>>eventually support a form have been created 100% on a mac, in
>>Dreamweaver MX - I will open those pages up, and add the database
>>connection in Front Page).
>
>Frontpage is an absolutely horrible choice to develop web pages in,
>especially if you already have dreamweaver... If you ever have
>trouble loading a web page, view source and over half the time the
>site is created in Frontpage. In fact, with non-IE browsers of
>today, I would WAG it to be over 75%.
>
>It creates very proprietary(to IE/windoze) and buggy code. Create a
>page with Frontpage, then create the same in dreamweaver and look at
>the bulky, excess code from Frontpage...
>
>I would also suggest MySQL over Access. Some pretty good GUI tools
>for OSX now and because of the Open Source community, lots of free
>help online. MySQL performed neck and neck with Oracle and miles
>ahead of everything else in the Ziff Davis shootout.
>
>Free youself from M$ proprietary gunk ;-)
>--
Second that. Dreamweaver is the One.
Also, most people can get away with flat-file DBs, so even MySQL is
overkill in what, 75% of the cases? Or more like 90%?
I'd avoid the MS stuff like the plague, also.
~flipper
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