Hi, The best editor for Mac OSX is Coda by Panic. It uses the Safari render engine (webkit) from your mac to preview your pages. http://www.panic.com/coda/ The next step is to use the firebug extension in firefox which is just a godsend for testing things on the fly.
I might use Dreamweaver if I am creating a table, apart from that I haven't touched it in years. Hope that helps, CB > > > 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/ > ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
