MB wrote:
> I thought DW used webkit for the Live view on Mac OS X at least. There > are a lot of webkit-based browsers, no? I have no experience of a version recent enough to support Live View : my last experience of DW was 8.0.2 > Obviously, the Design view in DW > is not about how it will look in a real web browser. I don't think this is "obvious" to the naive user at all. By putatively being a rendered view of the underlying source material, it leads naive and less experienced users into believing that that is what will be seen in a conformant browser. Even quite experienced former colleagues have been surprised at the differences between DW's design view and the view in a conformant browser. > It would be nice if the Design view always showed CSS according to the > spec at least, but DW have always been barely usable for CSS-oriented > design and the interface even in the current version is full of "easy" > GUI starting points for bad code. But even so, it is very possible to do > compliant good web design in Dreamweaver. As always, it's about the > knowledge and skill of the author/developer. I completely agree : I migrated from HoTMetaL PRO to DW some years ago, and much as I miss the "tags on" view of HM PRO, I have come to regard DW as a quite acceptable substitute so long as one remembers that it is simply an interface between coder and page, rather than a fully-fledged WYSIWYG design tool. Philip Taylor ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
