FrontPage to kill Dreameaver?!?!

Check out the preview image of FrontPage 2003 posted on Microsoft's web site. It looks a lot like DMX, even down to calling DIV's 'layers'. And notice that they have a DMX template file open in their screenshot!

Find the overview page here: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/frontpage/overview.asp

Find the screen shot here: http://www.microsoft.com/Office/Preview/images/frontpage/frontpage.gif

Oh yeah, and what's up with that Z-index of 268436456. That div must be in the stratosphere; nothing will get on top of that!

Hate to tell you but I doubt it needs a "Clean Up Word HTML" function.  FrontPage 2002 already has a smart tag that if you use it will prevent all the Word format garbage from getting into your page in the first place. When you paste the content from Word and choose 'match destination styles' it will take on whatever you have in your stylesheet instead of the mso:normal crap.

I've got the beta of FrontPage 2003 installed but don't have the rest of the Office 2003 Suite so I don't know how it handles the 'new' Word code. I haven't had the time to 'play' with the beta yet. Starting with FP 2003 there are no more server extensions required it writes either asp or asp.net depending on what the server supports.

I've been known to copy Word docs into FrontPage use the smart tag referenced above to remove the Word code then copy from FrontPage HTML view over to Dreamweaver's code view. That keeps lists and other items formated but without Word markup using the current version of FrontPage 2002.

Whether FrontPage 2003 will ive up to the advanced publicity I can't say but like every other web development tool out there it will have its pluses and minuses.