HomeSite 5 vs. 4.5.2

[DrDoc]

"I have been putting this off for far too long," as dear Bilbo Baggins would say.

At first I didn't bother to upgrade from HS4.5 to HS5, because 4.5 did exactly what I needed it to do. But now, as I mainly code XHTML, it's a bit of a hassle to add slashes etc. Spell checking has become a problem, since MS Office 2000 doesn't use the CSAPI spell checker any more. I know that HS5 is using the Sentra spell-checker engine, which is awesome.

So, everything points toward an upgrade.

But, I have a couple of questions before I upgrade.

1) Is it worth the upgrade otherwise (I mean, other than XHTML and the new spell-checker)? Any specific important changes?

2) My HomeSite is highly customised. Will I be able to transfer my toolbars, shortcuts etc to HS5? (In other words, are the UserData folders compatible?)

3) Anything else I need to think about before upgrading?

[DaveAtIFG]

It appears that we have few Homesite users... This search [google.com] offers some alternative resources if no one can provide any help.

[Trisha]

I bought the upgrade in July, but still have not been able to use it. It crashes everytime I start it up. I asked about this on Macromedia's homesite forum, the answer I got was to make some changes in my registry which I haven't done yet because I don't know a lot about the registry and don't feel comfortable changing it. I also have doubts about whether that will solve the problem. I really would like to able to use it though.

Have you been by the Homesite site forum on Macromedia's site? I would suggest you go there and see if many others are also having upgrade problems. When I last checked in July there were quite a few threads about it. They could also tell you more about its features, and if it is worth for those reasons. I would like to know what others here have to say about too though.

[DrDoc]

It's not so much "upgrade problems" as a question about whether it's worth it or not.

I've already customized HS4.5.2 so much that I already have pretty much the same functionality HS5 offers.

I'm even tempted to change it so I have full XHTML support as well .. Just lazy I guess ..

[dknybird]

I upgraded to HS5 and there was a definite good reason to do that. But I can't remember it anymore. *grin*

On the crash front... it crashes no more than any of my other stuff and it's mainly because I need to have photoshop5.5 IE and Netscape all open at the same time as it and my poor little computer does tend to give up after awhile

I also have a quite highly personalised version of it but I was installing on a new computer so really had to do most from scratch but it was very quick to do.

Anyway you have to go with your heart *grin*

Chris