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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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