Yes, this list will likely be controversial to some – particularly if you’re relying on one or more of these features today. However, the team decided to publish this list early- to both help you prepare for the changes, evaluate other options and adjust your own workflows. Most all the deprecated features either have become more code-centric workflows in other dedicated IDEs/environments (JSP, .NET), or had visual user interfaces that enabled DW developers and designers to generate poorly-formed code in the back end (Layout Mode and Timelines, for example) – something the team takes very seriously.

My personal opinion is that this move will really free up resources to do a LOT in the next few releases of Dreamweaver, and start doing more ‘revolutionary’ feature and architectural work as opposed to strictly ‘evolutionary’ features and polish. If any of the features to be removed give you pause, post a note, and it’s likely we can suggest alternatives for the post-CS3 era to help smooth the transition.

Personally- I hope that when we’re able to talk more about what’s being planned for the next version (or two) of Dreamweaver, the tradeoffs made here will be more than justified in your eyes. But that’s a subject for a much later date with a lot more details- so keep posted.

I have no plans to move to the Mac platform for my personal use. That said, I have noticed that I’ve been recommending the machine to friends and neighbors when they want to know what kind of system they should buy.

I can see why the Mac is gaining market share, because the rationale for using one is simple. Do you want to deal with the agony of antivirus, firewall, antispyware, and other touchy software subsystems, many of which do not work well? Or do you want to boot Microsoft Word and write a document and be done with it?

Whoa. I’m stunned. Where’s the Mac-hatin’ Dvorak of old?

I tend to agree with Fake Steve in his post here – for a long time I’ve used the Dvorak Apple-bashings as a contrarian indicator – a false negative, so to speak – and considered anything he bashed as something I’d likely love. Now I’m all torn. What’s a Mac lover to do if all the Apple haters are drying up one-by-one?

Witness Tom Tomorrow’s ‘Great Moments In Punditry: Four Years Later‘. Brilliant cartoon, Tom. Hats off t’ya.

Check out the article.

(Thanks to Don Crowley for the twitter-nod and link.)

Linda posted a brief update today on the Omni Mouth blog showing the first known screenshot (under development) of OmniFocus, and talking a bit through the requisite feature set planned. Read all the details at the Omni Mouth site.

My initial thoughts- OmniFocus looks nice, but I’m very pleased with my experience in iGTD so far, and it’s price is damn fine – free. OmniFocus will be a commercial app, and there is no release date yet. I’m also still not sold that the feature set noted for OmniFocus is any significant boost over iGTD. Solid, yes – but not enough to move me over yet. Although the ‘quick entry’ form planned for OmniFocus sounds great, it doesn’t appear to cover the ground that iGTD’s rich Quicksilver integration covers – and I’d prefer to stick with Quicksilver’s undeniable and mind-blowing awesomeness than dedicating another hotkey combo to a myopic ‘data entry’ screen dedicated to OmniFocus alone.

[Update: Ken has now set me straight via comments- Quicksilver is supported via plug-in as well, so OmniFocus would appear to still be a strong contender for my tasklists! ]

Of course, the OmniGroup folk are also known for their awesomeness- so I’ll withhold true judgment until I can get my hands on a prerelease. For now I feel that they’re chasing iGTD’s tail, but time will tell…

Finally- an accolade you’re actually qualified to receive.

Is Imus wrong with his comment? You fucking bet he is. Mining negative stereotypes for a laugh – thus invoking the race card – is stupid any way you slice it in my book. I’m an equal-opportunity cynic. Stupidity, ignorance and the potential to be an asshole are colorblind traits. I reserve the right to dislike someone based solely on the merits of their personality and actions- and race (at least for me) really does not factor into the equation. Even if Imus was a hip-hop superstar instead of the wrinkled, pathetic excuse for a white man he is, he’d still be an asshole at the end of the day based on those words.

And on that note, Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock finally called it like it is- I would stand up and cheer him from the rooftops if such a gesture translated into the online medium. Instead, I’ll just simply point to his column on the situation and offer up major props for the words he’s crafted within.

Read Jason’s article here – “Imus isn‚Äôt the real bad guy”.

You know, I cop a laugh at Dave Chappelle’s racial jabs just like everyone else – even when they’re pointed at me by proxy as a white man, but after a certain point you’ve just got to call the cards the way they lie on this issue. The gangsta-rap culture needs to own up to it’s share of the blame for propagating the current state of race relations and negative stereotypes – right along with the rest of us. There is no ‘get out of jail free card’ in this scenario, you’re either helping or hurting the situation. End of story.

So thank you, Jason. As a white boy in a rainbow-colored world, I certainly couldn’t say this as eloquently, or with as much weight, as you did. Excellent column.