Comments on: The past and future of Homesite

By: delpino

delpino — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:10:25 +0000

I think they should make Homesite open-source, this would kickstart its development as there are many fans out there.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 23 May 2005 21:27:13 +0000

Took your advice and downloaded a demo of TopStyle 3.0… I have used the free “lite” version for CSS, but this Pro version
is much more than just a CSS tool… it is very configurable and has Nick Bradbury’s flair with interfaces that made
HomeSite such an old friend. This tool seems like it will do the job, and it even let me configure a mapping
so I could preview PHP files. $79.00 but seems worth it, I will probably buy it!

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 23 May 2005 16:25:06 +0000

I too am in the same boat as you with HomeSite. I bought it early on and am just trying to ween myself off.
In fact I came across your site searching for any news or speculation on the future of HomeSite, now that Adobe owns it.
I also have big misgivings on the future of FreeHand also, figuring Adobe will stick with Illustrator. One program I
have found that is very HomeSite-like is Rapid PHP 2005. Not as rock solid as HomeSite, but has more PHP features
and for $30 a good deal (they make HTMLPad also, but RapidPHP combines all of the features of all of their programs
into one. Has good CSS tools also. I am not affiliated with the company. More info is at http://www.blumentals.net/rapidphp/

By: Greg Jordan

Greg Jordan — Tue, 17 May 2005 23:43:59 +0000

Got Mac? Have you tried BBEdit?

By: Patrick Schriner�s blog

Patrick Schriner�s blog — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:42:01 +0000

The end of Homesite? As questioned in a lot of places (here (Nick Bradbury), here) the recent anouncment on the aquisition of Macromedia by Adobe makes the future of Homesite very uncertain.I used Homesite when I started with Webdev (1999), and at that time it seemed like a g