Why is Dreamweaver's design view so messed up?

[Incredible_sincerity15D5]

Hi

I am sure this has been asked and answered loads of times but here goes again.

Dreamweaver gets a lot of bad press because of it's design view but why does Dreamweavers Design view render web pages so badly? Even pages that validate and are well structured often render very poorly. Why is this?

It's not as if DW doesn't have a decent rendering engine built in - live view works perfectly well. And Contribute seems to be able to present an editable page rendered correctly.

The design view obviously has some sort of rendering engine to do it's job but is it a bespoke, poorly written one that it's not up to the job? Why keep it if doesn't work? Is there just no will to fix it?

[mhollis55]

Knowing that Live View is Webkit is instructive: I will have Firefox open from now on and will run the emulator for IE for a final check. Were I on Windows, I would run IE, then do a Firefox check.

Live View uses the same engine as Safari and Chrome.

Anyone know if Opera is still worth checking.

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[topelovely]

Why can't Adobe spend time to improve the design view of Dreamweaver to it make more designers friendly.It doesn't just sound right!

[AllDayDev2]

We appreciate the feedback, topelovely.

Be sure to let the Dreamweaver development team know directly that you would like Design View improved: http://adobe.ly/DWwish

If you have any specific things you would Design View to do, or not do, or do better/differently, be sure to include that in your submission.

Thanks!