Freeway 4 is impossible to rate. When it works, it is easy to use use with a beautiful interface that produces standards compliant code.

Problem is most of the time it doesn't work correctly, or rather produces standards compliant code that doesn't display correctly in the worlds most used browser. Softpress's response to this is 'not our fault'. True its not their fault that MS cant produce a decent modern standards compliant browser, but freeway needs to produce code that does work with the ugly beast or it is nearly useless.

Then there are all the little but constant annoyances - like non standard keyboard shortcuts for zooming, panning and copying. If I lived in a world where I wasn't constantly going back and forth between freeway, photoshop and illustrator this wouldn't matter, but that is the world that web design takes place in.

It is quiet clear that softpress rushed 4.0 out the door. It was full of bugs that they are, to their credit, slowly addressing. One wonders whether they ever listen to their customers when it comes to interface and what the product needs to do - produce web pages that can be viewed equally well in ALL browsers, not just Safari and Firefox.

My previous experiences with GoLive and Dreamweaver are what keep me persevering, but every day I ask myself why, and know that it is only a matter of time before I am forced to jump ship.