Re: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Blown
We tested DW8 recently, Contribute 3 also uses this latest renderer. Its CSS support is a big improvement over the previous version. It still has a way to go yet. We picked up some issues with negative margins and other issues regarding floats. But if you keep these little issues in mind when

Re: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-11 Thread Jad Madi
Well, I'm new to DW8 I used to hand coding but it's taking time to deliver sites, so I'm learning to use DW, and it seems to be good, at least till now. Code wise it can do everything for you, semantic wise you will have to be careful and the internal validate doesn't work 100% properly with

Re: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-11 Thread Samuel Richardson
I moved from Dreamweaver to hand coding because it was faster for CSS layout based sites. For working on older table based sites then Dreamweaver is handy for navigating around the nested layouts. On a related note, can anyone suggest a text editor that features an auto complete (for tags and

Re: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-11 Thread Jad Madi
Samuel, we are not talking about any version of DW, we are talking about the latest version of dreamweaver, which seems to be promising, and seems to be a good tool to deliver standards based sites. I'm not sure about previous versions of DW, and what draw my attention to DW8 is they are

Re: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-11 Thread Daisy
Samuel Richardson wrote: I moved from Dreamweaver to hand coding because it was faster for CSS layout based sites. For working on older table based sites then Dreamweaver is handy for navigating around the nested layouts. On a related note, can anyone suggest a text editor that features an

Re: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-11 Thread David McKinnon
I've been using DW8 (demo) since Friday and it's really very good. I'm using it mainly in code view, but its design view does an excellent view of rendering CSS layouts, a major improvement over MX 2004. It means that I'm not having to preview in a browser as much. While I almost never use it

Re: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-11 Thread Tom Livingston
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:02:56 -0400, Samuel Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I moved from Dreamweaver to hand coding because it was faster for CSS layout based sites. For working on older table based sites then Dreamweaver is handy for navigating around the nested layouts. On a related

Re: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-11 Thread Vicki Berry
David McKinnon wrote: the code DW produces (in at least the two most recent versions) is very much standards compliant as far as I can tell. It's actually great that Macromedia has been so committed to web standards and so responsive to their beta testers. WaSP has made Stephanie Sullivan

Re: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-11 Thread Jesse Rodgers
It's actually great that Macromedia has been so committed to web standards and so responsive to their beta testers. WaSP has made Stephanie Sullivan and Jesse Rodgers Dreamweaver Task Force members so they can continue working with MM on the standards issue. Hopefully soon the dwtf will

Re: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-11 Thread Buddy Quaid
im suprised because I think the built in validator actually checks the validity through the internet from w3c, doesn't it? So, I dont know how it could not work properly. I may be wrong but that's what I thought happened. Wha semantically doesn't it do in strict mode? Can you provide an

RE: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-11 Thread Jonathan Bloy
On October 11, 2005 2:03am Samuel Richardson wrote: On a related note, can anyone suggest a text editor that features an auto complete (for tags and attributes). Also, if it had Dreamweavers ability to select blocks of tags (from open tag to close tag and everything in between) that would be

[WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-10 Thread Jad Madi
Hi, is there any good reviews of Dreamweaver 8 and web standards? do you recommend using it to achieve standards compliant sites? any advantages/disadvantages? Thanks in advance. -- Regards Jad madi Blog http://EasyHTTP.com/jad/ Web standards Planet http://W3planet.net/

RE: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-10 Thread Patrick Lauke
Jad Madi is there any good reviews of Dreamweaver 8 and web standards? do you recommend using it to achieve standards compliant sites? any advantages/disadvantages? Apparently it's quite good. I'd recommend having a look at http://www.sitepoint.com/article/dreamweaver-8-standards (and the

Re: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-10 Thread Buddy Quaid
As an avid user of Dreamweaver everyday, I can tell you that Dreamweaver is great for compliant sites. It has a lot of built in tools like a validator that validates to the spec of your current DTD. Also closes tags according to the dtd chosen. It has not only xhtml validator but also 508

Re: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-10 Thread Terrence Wood
Buddy Quaid said: As an avid user of Dreamweaver everyday, I can tell you that Dreamweaver is great for compliant sites. It has a lot of built in tools like a validator that validates to the spec of your current DTD. Are you talking about DW8? DWMX 2004 does not validate HTML 4, it uses it's