Talk:Microsoft Expression Web
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Anybody else looking forward to this product?
Just want to know when it will be available?
- CTP1 was released! You can play with it, it's pretty cool. atanamir 13:16, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Just How Standards Compliant Is It?
Just how standards compliant is it? After the disaster that was FrontPage, I'm a bit skeptical. Can anybody point to a site that was created with it?
If it actually is standards-compliant, Microsoft ought to have the Expression Web team working on IE 8 so I can stop having recurring nightmares about jumping links and invalid box models…
Wulf 02:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
"provides support for integrating XML, CSS 2.1, ASP.NET 2.0, XHTML, JavaScript and other standard Web technologies"
since when is ASP.NET a standard web technology?
[edit] ASP.NET
It is and it isn't, however a lot of websites use it. Although I don't use it, it probably isn't such a bad technology after all. Don't judge a book by its cover. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.185.228.187 (talk) 23:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Marketing babble
Anyone else thing that "Expression Web is focused on the needs of professional Web designers seeking to build high-quality, standards-based Web sites for companies" sound more like an advert than an encyclopaedia? Simxp 03:53, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
The whole thing reads like an ad. ASP.Net is NOT a standard technology, it is Microsoft proprietary! Complete re-write needed. --Dyefade 00:44, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Criticisms in intro section
I have removed the following sentences from the intro paragraphs.
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- Ironically, Microsoft's Internet Explorer cannot render strict standards-based websites correctly. Also, ASP.NET is the only server-side supported language, an important standard such as PHP is not supported.
While these criticisms may or may not be valid, I do not believe that they belong in the intro paragraph. (Especially the first sentence, which is nothing more than a cheap shot at IE.) Viltris 19:45, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
I removed the sentence about Internet Explorer's standards compliancy criticism. Criticism against Internet Explorer certainly does not belong in the Expression Web article. Viltris 19:14, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Criticism section
I removed the criticism section. It feels like WP:NOR to me.
ASP.NET is as much a "standard" as PHP. Each one is the predominant dynamic server technology on their respective platforms (Windows/.NET or Unix/PHP.)
It is one thing to criticize a proprietary platform for being proprietary. Such criticism belongs in the article on ASP.NET if it belongs on Wikipedia at all. It is a completely different matter to criticize a product for only doing what it was intended to do--create web pages for the Microsoft .NET platform. As such, I don't think "ASP.NET is the only server-side supported language in Expression Web; an important standard such as PHP is not supported." is an appropriate section in this article. Jonathan Auer 10:31, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
