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VanillaSnake
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January 18, 2017
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Live view doesn't refrsh on code change

  • January 18, 2017
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For some reason my live view stopped refreshing after I change code and save. I have to manually press refresh or f5.  Also is it just or is this the worst excuse of an ide out there? I mean styles randomly crashing in live view, clicking on live screen item doesn't bring up the associated code, no basic features like converting style sheets to inline properties, and just horrible lag. It's faster for me to hit F12 to open the page in browser then wait for live view to finish reloading. I'm sick of it, I've been with DW for almost a year now, but it's just complete BS that I have to deal with this. And there aren't even better alternatives out there. By the way this is CC 2015.2 did anything change in 2016/2017 version? Is it worth upgrading?

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    Correct answer Jon Fritz

    Inline styles are also standard issue for html emails.

    Having something that converts a stylesheet to inline for those would be very handy.

    @VanillaSnake,

    Make sure you're working with clean code. DW has been getting more an more finicky over the last few versions about clean/valid code use. Even little things can send it into a tailspin. Run the validator at http://validator.w3.org/nu to make sure you don't have major structural errors. Some junk warnings, like missing alt attributes on images, won't affect display, but missing end tags can.

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    VanillaSnakeAuthor
    Participant
    January 18, 2017

    Ebay prefers inline.

    pziecina
    pziecina
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    January 18, 2017

    You can install both versions of Dw on your machine, but if you do not like Dw 2015, don't bother.

    One question though -

    Are you using a defined site?

    If you are not then Dw will give problems, and why would you want in-line styles?

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    VanillaSnakeAuthor
    Participant
    January 18, 2017

    I'm not using a defined site, this is not really a site I'm working on it's an ebay listing. Would it help if I do that?

    pziecina
    pziecina
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    January 18, 2017

    A defined site definitely improves Dw's performance, without one Dw now has difficulty resolving just what it is doing. I cannot remember which version this change happened in, but I do remember it happening.

    If I am not working on an actual site I still create a 'dummy' site using my testing server.

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