Dreamweaver 8

[David]

Dreamweaver 8 has been announced and it does look very good. CSS implementation has had a massive workover with loads of new tools including the "visual aids" (some Firefox plug-in influences here). Also accessibility checking, improved code-view tools. The big thing they are touting is the facility to zoom in on your design and the inclusion of Photoshop style guides. This is all really good news but it will only work if Macromedia have sorted out the abysmal rendeding engine used in the MX versions.

See it here (http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/upgrade.html) - it's well worth watching the "what's new" presentation.

[francis]

Yes, this does seem like a worthwhile upgrade. What they need is a colour picker in DW that can sample colour from bitmaps - I'm forever having to open things in FF just to get a hex value.

Also interesting to see Freehand dropped from the suite in favour of Contribute and FlashPaper. That'll be the first sign of Adobe not continuing its development, then.