They have added the Brackets code hints/completion to Dw's code view in the pre-release version, but live view has not been updated to include rendering of css grids.
My understanding is that the Chrome rendering engine will need to be updated before DW's Live View can support CSS grids.
The Chrome rendering engine has supported css grids for a few years, but about 18 months ago they disabled support so they could remove support for sub-grids before re-enableing it, (was behind a flag at that time).
CEF, which Dw uses for its live view, was i think started in its update process about that time and unfortunatly the snap-shot of the Chrome rendering engine that CEF is taken from, probably had the feature disabled.
They have added the Brackets code hints/completion to Dw's code view in the pre-release version, but live view has not been updated to include rendering of css grids.
...yet.
Hopefully, the dev guys will update the rendering engine of the built in browser before pushing the next version. If not, the browsers that support Grids will work fine for site previews.
For a few years Dw users, (and all other ide's) will have to provide fallback code anyway, and the simplest method of providing that fallback is Flexbox. Live view with grid support would be nice, but until many more developers start using grids, so we can develop 'best practices' i don't think it is an essential requirerment.
Thank You for your inputs. We have started supporting Code Hints for CSS grid layout but the Live View still not shows the correct rendering because the CEF version that supports CSS GRid layout as in Chrome is an earlier one. Although, we have added this issue in our backlog and will take it up in the next releases.
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