O11 Beta (2003)

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FrontPage 2003 is a beta version. I tried to use it to produce a site, but there are bugs in the Shared Borders. Importing a site changes the type size in TextBoxes(!?).

Not ready for prime time.

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Not ready for prime time, eh? Isn’t that typical of so many MS products these days? Can you tell us a bit more about what the program is like? The web site tells us that it’s better, but offers no information on what improvements have been made. I understand that it no longer requires server extensions (yeah!). Does it provide any useful tools for editing ASP pages?

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There are scads of new features. Probably the best way to see these discussed is the MS newsgroups. What I like best is that in ‘code’ view, each line is numbered, and Intellisense provides tag completion.

The major difficulty I have had is to properly reconcile navigation ~ the beta botches that, so I had to (gasp!) hard-wire a link bar . Ahem. Did i say that? Naah, that couldnt have been me.

Rumor has it that 2003 was Released To Manufacturing today, so you wont have long to wait.

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> Importing a site changes the type size in TextBoxes(!?).

Could this be a result of changing from a less CSS to a more CSS-compliant approach to fonts in the document? If the sizing previously was left to the browser defaults and now is controlled by a style sheet, that could explain the change.

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just another beta issue as far as i was concerned, so i put that behind me and ploughed on…

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