Well I found out this little bit info from a instructor at a college grade center I attended tonight said just briefly that a new Dreamweaver is coming out. From the bit of info I got DW8 has been out for about 18 months. If I remember correclty DW MX was out for like 2 years and some change before DW8 came in to update all the new stuff (XHTML and CSS). Also this will be the first dreamweaver to have the adobe product name under since adobe bought out macromedia last year. Should be interesting if they do any updating for the code to clean it up and implement more CSS stuff with itand what not or just be like DW 8 but with adobe on it. She didn't give a date but I expect it to be a summer or fall thing this year when it comes out, I have haven't found any website that talk about this, but if anyone finds them post them up.

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Oh, goody, another crappy wysiwyg piece of junk to fix code from.
Maybe this one will work, but I doubt it. None of them handle cross browser issues worth junk. You just can't code a piece of software to accommodate the IE family of Browsers where you use their faulty rendering to fix another broken tag, then need a third hack to fix what fixed the first thing that broke and round and round you go. Best thing to happen is the IE conditional comments to select which version you are hacking and keeping it clean. Wonder if DW9 will do that?

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I personally can't wait. I think that it is really great adobe and Macromedia will be together and their file formats will be incorporated into the program easier. I can't wait to here what new features will come out of this. I just started learning Dreamweaver 8 this year and my teacher kept talking about how when the new one comes out there would be a lot of changes to the program. So i really hope the program does come out soon.

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@haslip I am shocked DW does not produce junk code (except for the CSS templates they have, found out that little tidbit just awhile ago.) I never use the design view tab in DW because it never displays your page correctly no matter how solid your code is.

Remember its not the coding that is displaying properly its how the browser is interpreting code that makes it look messed up like it does (IE).

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Great, Adobe have done it rigbht on time. If they do add more CSS options that would be great. More and more sites are abonandoned then tables and gone for CSS styled websites. Which means faster loading times for everyone!

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really nice, im sure gonna get it when its out, and some more CSS options would be nice indeed.

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IE can be hacked to displayed correctly. Check out IE conditional Comments.

And wysiwyg editors don't perform the hacks is all I am saying. You still need coding skills to "hack" their output.

As for the DW8 and its display function, are you able to select which Browser you use for display? Some Browsers are more capable than others. Specifically, Opera 9 and Konquerer both currently pass the Acid Test and the FF3 version expected out in the 3rd quarter of 2007 will also meet that standard.
If you have several Browsers installed, can you view the DW generared code in all of them to show the differences in rendering?

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The only thing I've ever had to do with Dreamweaver is clean up the code. I've never had cross browser issues with my code when I code in dreamweaver. I don't test in IE anymore though. If it works in Presto and Gecko I don't really care.

 

 

 

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That's awesome I have alwways been fond of dreamweAver and liked the previoius versions I wonder what some new thiings will be included the latest version of it, I also would like to know the costs and basic information like thst. A cannot wait for the next update.

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For dreamweaver in your prefences you can set up your previews for each browser, you can have a primary one and then secondary ones, then click ok then go to file and pick the browser that you want to preview. However the Design view is built in so unless you design your site through the design view, you will have to suffer the ctrl + s and then select the browser and press f5 to view your site. Of course their are some editors that are set up with a browser design view, just have to suffer the junk code most of them produce.

That is true they don't before hacks, but depending on how your trying to design your site you can get away from using hacks. So says this Instructor in a class I attended last night.

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