Microsoft Expression Web 3 review

I reverted to EW2

This product seems half baked to me. It crashes when trying to load some complex layouts involving ASP.NET Nested Master Pages. EW2 at least loaded the pages, although they looked nothing like they did in the browser. I find myself using Blend 3 for Silverlight, and a combination of Visual Studio and Expression Web 2 for HTML/CSS.
If anything, this makes for a nice HTML/CSS editor, with its Auto Complete for CSS and HTML, and validation warnings. Forget the WYSIWYG.
The interface is odd too. I don't know if it's WPF like Blend is, but you can see the leftovers of FrontPage 98 lurking in some of the menus.

By ManicMarc on 7 Nov 2009

"Microsoft's all-purpose Flash-killer web format designed for cross-platform, cross-browser playback."

If you can afford to alienate millions of Linux users for years as you wait for Moonlight to catch up with Silverlight, go for it.

If not, do your business a favour and put your Silverlight SDKs in the bin.

By zeevro on 13 Nov 2009

I've tried it

and there's much to like about it, except that for me at least it is a little bit buggy. It offers a superb coding environment that is more intuitive than the one offered in dreamweaver so I use it mostly for coding.

By cervantes01 on 13 Oct 2010