CSS Grid and Variables

since the beginning of this thread I have read carefully all the exchanges, and several times I almost dared to answer and then I did not ... but it's interesting to see the directions that each exchange took ..

The more I look at Dreamweaver, the pre-release/cab participants and the feature requests Dw has, the more I don't blame Dw for its lack of support for many features.

Requests for support of many old techs that now have less than a 1% market share, that also appear to have a higher than expected support base (20+ votes) compared to other feature requests, often simply because those using them have ignored what is happening in IT and web development, can only contribute to the Dw team ignoring what is happening, and explains in some ways the lack of support for modern W3C specs. This only illustrates that many Dw user are more interested in support for old methods and server techs that are being abandoned, than they are in the future.

Developers have been adopting flexbox for a number of years now, and css animations, but Dw has ignored this trend because many of those using Dw simply have no idea how to use Flexbox or css animations. That statement may be true for you, or not, but like everything else in Dw it shows how little the avarage Dw user thinks of anything beyond what has been available since IE6.

css grid layouts and variables have been discussed in this forum a number of times, but unless Bootstrap starts using both in the next version, (5) don't expect good support until then, and certainly don't expect anyone to take notice of anything said in this forum.

I've been using DW since shortly before Allaire was acquired by Macromedia.  I'm not exactly thrilled with a lot of things that Adobe does.  I was especially incensed when Adobe removed CF support from DW.  I have been very critical of Adobe in the past, and have a sneaking suspicion that I will for a while.

I have CC 13.1 on this workstation, and DW CS5.5 on my development system, and the difference is night and day - CS5.5 is way better than CC 13.1.  And don't get me started on CFB.  Whomever thought it was a good idea to remove any possibility of activating an application unless there is an internet connection should be fired.  Our development network is air-gapped from the internet, so we can't use CFB.  Which is oddly comforting because I've seen CFB3 and didn't like anything about it.  But that's another thread.

I can get extensions (I think?) to put the CF support back in to CC.  I know that can be done in Brackets, but I can't get used to the way Brackets previews in browser.

The point is, have you checked to see if there are any extensions that can accomplish what you are seeking?  Even though they removed the Extension Manager, I believe you can still install extensions.

V/r,

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mtartist  wrote The clear choice is VS Studio Code - it is FREE, it works and it supports the latest algorithms published by the leading web browsers... you can see changes in your advanced CSS in real time... no preprocessors, no git, no bs.

Depends how you look at things VS Code has no intuitive snippets creator or snippets panel, it has no file management......does that make it way behind? Funny this editors 'wars' none really cut it - they all have something desirable missing. Its a case of picking the best from a really, really bad bunch.

Hi mtartist

Another alternative, which I'm not sure if you have looked at it is Pinegrow. It supports CSS Grid & Variables and so much more, through its - visual tools, direct code and live in app preview.

Here is a basic overview of Pinegrow and CSS Grid aspect:

https://medium.com/@mattront/how-to-learn-css-grid-with-pinegrow-e865ece2e137

It might be something worth looking into, based upon the things you wrote in your post. It also works directly with Atom, and can be used with various other editors also.