I've been trying to use Dreamweaver for years now but it's never cut it with me. Nearly all the annoyances have been ironed out with the new version except for one major one:
The preview window just doesnt handle heavy use of CSS to layout pages. For some reason, the preview window gets it often (but not always) very wrong which means you end up having to keep refreshing a browser window to see how your page is rendered in a half decent fashion. If I've got to do that than I may as well use a text editor. In Homesite, the preview window uses the IE control which is not ideal but at least you know where you stand with it. TopStyle lets you have both Gecko and IE in the preview window with quick access keys to all the other browsers you have installed which is by far the best way. Does anyone else find this to be a major annoyance? For me, it's so bad I can't use the thing even though one or two of the features would be quite useful. On that subject though, most of Dreamweavers features try to write code for you, whether it be HTML, JavaScript or serverside code and that is just not a good idea. Quoting Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I started off in Dreamweaver 3 but quickly moved into handcoding found it > far better and easier to manipulate pages than with a GUI editor. > > I cant go back to Dreamweaver, its slow its clunky and just doesn't cut it > like homesite 5+ does. > > > Benjamin > > Life through a Polaroid > www.lifethroughapolaroid.com > > > ***************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ***************************************************** > > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
