Delphi 8 vs. Dreamweaver as WYSIWYG HTML Editors
I have to say that I came across a rather stupid forum posting this morning.
Call me old school but programmers were usually the "smarter ones". In most cases they had more expertise and skills than Web designers did while Web designers remained the creative ones. Web designers did a better job at what they do but they don’t deal with as many programming languages as traditional programmers do. My point is that being a "traditional" programmer you know a little more about programming in general and (should) know at least the very (very, very, very) basics of other programming languages (HTML , anyone?).
As a both Delphi and Macromedia (now Adobe) Dreamweaver user it makes me wonder what the person was thinking. Sure Delphi is fine for ASP.Net Web applications but to use it a replacement for Dreamweaver ? Although it can help with some editing it cannot replace or compare to a professional web editing package that Dreamweaver is. The former is an excellent RAD package while the latter is a WYSIWYG web editor.
I was looking for Delphi source codes using Google API when I came across this. I don’t feel like writing code today 
Cost is the matter here, I don’t know much about Delphi 8 cost, I think they don’t sell that product now. Delphi 2009 cost way too much for anyone to buy to have ASP HTML WYSIWYG editor.
I can program in Object Pascal but never found any other use after college project with Turbo Delphi. Hardly any company prefer Delphi, most of them work around Java or M$ languages.
Today their is NO good WYSIWYG editor which can be compared with Adobe’s web products. They dominates this field, although if someone like coding more then Textmate, bluefish or Aptana can do great job.
But it take more of your imagination (time) in html editor then it takes in dreamweaver, it saves lot of time to be honest, but its true that once you have to pay those $ but that worth it.
I agree that few companies use Delphi anymore as most have shifted to either Microsoft programming tools or have migrated to Web technologies. I’m not saying that Delphi is dead (it is far from dead) but it sure is not what it used to be!
Anyway, cost aside Dreamweaver is by far the best tool for developing for the Web unless you develop everything in ASP.net (then Visual Studio is your suite of choice). I’m just surprised that anyone would even think of Delphi 8 (at the time of the forum post) as a tool for web development…