Macromedia: Best Practices with CSS in Dreamweaver MX. [via Eric Costello] The new version of Dreamweaver has radically improved support for CSS and authoring accessible and standards-based web sites. It even has a built-in HTML/XHTML validator. Someone at Macromedia appears to have read the W3C’s Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (which I mentioned a few days ago in Accessibility: it’s not just a good idea, it’s the law).
My prediction: within the next 12 months, all web authoring tools will fully embrace CSS, accessibility, and web standards. And I mean fully, inside and out, as Macromedia appears to have done here. Those tools that do not will simply fall by the wayside. This is the new baseline.
But back to DreamWeaver MX. Jonathon Delacour likes it. Jeffrey Zeldman likes it. You can download a preview copy of Dreamweaver MX and try it for yourself. The preview release is time-limited, but apparently there is a bug that makes the Mac version expire early, sometimes within hours. Presumably, the full version will not have this bug, since it will not expire.
