Jeff Moyes wrote: >Does anyone know of a reference anywhere that lists the css that >Macromedia's DreamWeaver supports in its internal rendering engine? > >
No, and such a thing would be extremely difficult to create. Most of its CSS bugs aren't as simple as "doesn't support the property min-width" or something, but are more dependent on the particular combination of things that is going on in a page. I use negative margins a lot, and sometimes DW displays them fine, other times it completely chokes. Too much going on in a single page to diagnose precisely what it is having a problem with. And this would be a fruitless exercise, anyway. I don't care what DW supports -- I care what browsers support. I write my CSS that works well in browsers, and if DW has a problem with it, I ignore it or create a Design-time Style Sheet for it to use instead. >I need to know this in that I have a friend who is making an extension >for DreamWeaver, and the GUI for DW's extensions are defined using html >+ css + javascript. So he needs to use css to style the gui elements, >and he keeps running into lots of grief when something doesn't look >right - not knowing whether it's lack of support in DW's rendering >engine for that particular css feature or whether it's some bug in his >code (either in the css or the html or even in some javascript as some >of the elements are dynamically generated and maybe aren't being >generated correctly for the css to then be able to style). > He needs to learn to preview in browser. That's how you check whether it's DW or you (or the browser) that is the problem. >Any info would be greatly appreciated but DW MX 2004 and newer would be >best, both for Windows and MAC OS X. > > Upgrading to DW 8 would be a big help -- much better CSS support there. >(I seem to remember hearing back with MX 2004 that DW for MAC OS X was >using Opera as the rendering engine - but I'm not sure if that's true. >It does seem to have various css bugs not present in Opera though). > No, DW doesn't use any particular browser's rendering engine. You may be thinking of GoLive, which I believe does use Opera's rendering engine for one of its views. Zoe -- Zoe M. Gillenwater Design Services Manager UNC Highway Safety Research Center http://www.hsrc.unc.edu ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
