Ben Ramsey is an attendee at the Microsoft Web Development Summit 2007 on his blog he reports on the summit amongst his comments are some interesting points directly relevant to Expression Web and the next version. In particular the addition of features to implement PHP Syntax Support within Expression Web .
Wayne Smith a Expression Web Product Manager gave a demo at the Web Development Summit (N.B. Wayne’s demos are always good and not just because he’s British, it’s because he is passionate about what he does) where he talked about PHP features and implementation.
The comments Ben makes are not many but what PHP developers would like to see is a really a good showing with PHP. They don’t need a full debugger or anything but they need enough where writing PHP scripts is fully supported. It definitely needs to become a major PHP IDE. Lets hope Microsoft will go all out on this front and not trickle features in over the coming versions going all out on the first update would mean that many PHP coders would sit up and take a keen interest in Expression Web and the more people using EW the more ideas are generated.