Hello,

I am using Adobe GoLive CS1 and CS2 a lot to develop html email layouts
for my own business as well as for my clients.

e.g. Newsletters, contact forms, product news etc. pp

As mentioned in my prior postings on VersionTracker, Adobe does no longer
allow me to produce a clean, web standards compliant, functional and proper
html and css code under GoLive 9.0!

The table tool automatically inserts css tags in the HEAD of my html email
documents. From my experience, css tags in the head of html email documents
does not work with most email clients. This is why web developers need
to insert the css styles and classes in the BODY of their html-formatted email
documents to avoid major compatibility problems with several email clients.

Due to the significant changes in GoLive 9.0, I am no longer able to create,
adapt and modify my html formatted email documents as I was used to in GoLive
CS1 and CS2.

Creating a new html email layout from scratch by using Adobe GoLive 9.0 is simply
impossible.

The wysiwyg web editor was until now a very helpful tool to create and layout
my html formatted emails.

Well, now I can go back to edit and "layout" my documents in simple text
editors such as Apple's "TextEdit" for example. This is somehow dreadful that
Adobe has managed to "create" and "invent" so many obstacles in their newest
software release.

It is somehow strange to me, that a company that has achieved so much
knowledge and experience in the field of web design and development in the past,
has included these most questionable "non-sense features" in their newest release.

I can't imagine that a development team with such a profound expertise in web
development was not aware of all the negative effects, these significant changes
could evoke and make the lives of their end-users difficult , frustrating, counterproductive
by restricting their entire workflow and creativity.

For me personally, this product release is simply UNBELIEVABLE! I mean, Adobe is
or at least was until now a company that stands for DESIGN & PUBLISHING. It's their
business right?

It's like as if someone had wiped out all the know-how in web publishing Adobe
has gained over the past decade!

It looks to me as if "Michael Schumacher" for example would no longer know
how to drive a car from one championship to another.

What Adobe has developed here is a car with square wheels. Prior to Adobe GoLive 9.0
the wheels were round, now they have become quadrangular.

Unbelievable Adobe! (with a shake of the head)


graphically & sincerely,

Marc Klein
mediaVinci - The art of invention