CS4 and CS6 design views

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August 6, 2012
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When viewing the same index file I see significant differences between the design views of Dreamweaver CS4 and Dreamweaver CS6. The index file was created in CS5. My CS4 displays it correctly while CS6 design view is not even close. The live views are correct with both.

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ALsp

Brainiac

Dreamweaver Design View is a browser facsimile - at best.

MurraySummers

Inspiring

CS6 is a good deal stricter in its interpretation of your HTML than CS4 was. Does the page validate? The easiest way to get a hinky display in CS6 is to throw invalid code at it. You can use the W3C's validator to determin the validity of the code -

http://validator.w3.org

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AWP64Author

Known Participant

The index page is actually a .php file from Lynda.com. A file used in one of their online tutorials involving the editing of WordPress themes/templates in DreamWeaver. The W3C validation comes back as valid for HTML5.

Jon Fritz

Community Expert

Yeah, they'll be different. There are things that DW6 knows that weren't invented when DW4 was out and other things that DW4 will still see that have been completely removed from HTML and are either ignored, or not rendered correctly by DW6.

Do you have a specific question about something you're seeing?

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AWP64Author

Known Participant

It almost appears that the interpretation of the css is being handled differently between the two versions. I don't know how that would be when both versions display the live view and browser output correctly.

John Waller

Community Expert

John Waller wrote:
He certainly pushed the envelope in the early days of CSS but he also pushed standards and usable CSS.
His approach is as pragmatic as much as it is experimental.

I don't thing Eric ever create a 'real world' site or was that bothered about creating one. Only lectured and published a few books about css. The two are worlds apart.

All I can say is I learned plenty of real world CSS from Eric in my early days.

Eric's Wordpress blog http://meyerweb.com is still being updated for those interested in his activities.

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