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> whats wrong with Brackets/Sublime/DW/Notepad and a web browser

Designers usually have a "visual first" approach, developers tend to have a "code first" approach. So a tool that allows setting up stuff visually instead of writing code in a text editor will make designers more productive.

I've been using Fireworks and Dreamweaver for 15 years and haven't found a good alternative to that. Fireworks is(was) very good at dealing with web assets,it was easy to write macros and extensions in JS, Dreamweaver has good templating capabilities (a bit like static site generators) which makes maintaining complex layouts on multiple pages really really easy for web designers.

The issue with Dreamweaver is obviously the fact that it's out of touch with modern web design (very little support for CSS frameworks and pre-processors, text editor below average, and of course Adobe succeeded in killing the best thing Macromedia had achieved,creating an awesome community around its products).As for Fireworks it's dead.

So designers like me are always watching for alternative tools that could replace these. There is a serious need for innovation in that space. I don't think the UI for such a tool should be 100% web based however.