1 Forum unveiled (off-topic)

We’ve just begun testing the new forums, produced by everyone’s favorite pixel-by-pixel animator (and ALA’s new List Mom), Waferbaby
(http://www.waferbaby.com/). If you run into a problem using the new forum, hit the Contact page http://www.alistapart.com/contact/ and let us know. Thanks!

Now back to our regularly scheduled topic discussion. – jeffrey

posted at 04:21 pm on April 8, 2002 by Apartness

2 re: Dreamweaver MX

Has anyone seen any screenshots or beta reports for Dreamweaver MX?

posted at 07:45 am on April 9, 2002 by Greg

3 Yes!!!!!

I have been waiting for these forums to be back up for so long. ALA’s audience is the best for discussions and feedback.

posted at 08:34 am on April 9, 2002 by Michael Marschall

4 Dreamweaver MX

I’ve seen some screenshots and though it’s hard to make out, rumor has it that perhaps many of our calls for XHMTL/CSS standards support have been answered with DrmWvr MX … including file conversion of HTML files to XHTML.

Thanks ALA and webstandards.org for any part you might have played in this …

S

posted at 10:05 am on April 9, 2002 by Steve

5 Not sure if I'm ready to xhtml my stuff w/DW

Wow, I need more coffee … took me three visits to Zeldman’s site to realize that this particular forum is up, not all of them … kept going to the forum page and hitting refresh… still seeing the “forums not available” page… considered emailing Zeldman in case he did not realize the problem, but decided to take a minute to make sure I was right… I was wrong. =)

Is there another designers’ forum/community anywhere? I had just discovered dreamless when it closed.

Now I feel guilty and must make this post on-topic. I have so far found exactly one of my clients that cares about validated code … and he was quite obsessive about it. I don’t know if it’s worth the trouble to update my sites to xhtml yet, even with Dreamweaver’s help, though I’m glad it’s possible.

I guess I’m setting myself up for always fighting fires, but I have to pick and choose which new stuff I devote time to learning and implementing, or I end up babbling and drooling in the web design aisle of Barnes & Noble.

posted at 10:07 am on April 9, 2002 by Johannah

6 Psst! No speaking out of shool

Pssst! Ixnay on the anderstay in eamweaverDray.

It’s been suggested that the upcoming version of Dreamweaver will offer enhanced compliance with web standards, and there may be truth to that rumor.

However, anyone who KNOWS is not allowed to discuss such things until after the software has been released to the market.

Macromedia asks folks to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for a reason. Anyone who’s seen upcoming Dreamweaver MX may be happy about what they’ve seen, but they can’t discuss it publicly at this time without breaking their NDA agreement, and we can’t publish any discussions like that in our Forum without also inadvertently breaking that agreement.

Thanks for understanding.

posted at 10:13 am on April 9, 2002 by apartness

7 Custom DTDs & Valid XHTML

My current off-time project at work is to convert the corporate site from messy HTML to crisp and valid XHTML.

However.

Our site has a mess of Flash in it – and while I have, in the past, successfully linked to a custom DTD (in order to get both OBJECT and EMBED to be accepted) and had things validate (via HTMLhelp.com only, of course) – making these same alterations in Dreamweaver has caused a number of hiccups during the validation process. I still can’t get it to accept the custom DTD.

Might there be additional tweaks to be made to the DW Flash tags? I’ve added the ending slash for the PARAMs, but I might be missing something.

posted at 11:05 am on April 9, 2002 by gabby

8 Lets talk GoLive 6 then.

Ok, if we shouldn’t talk about D.MX then how about Adobe implementation of XHTML, CSS and other standards in the new GoLive 6. Did Adobe get it right or are there strings attached to creating pages that validate?

posted at 11:17 am on April 9, 2002 by Greg

9 New software

Grrr. And is anyone except me irritated that every time they manage to afford the upgrade it seems like the next version is imminent? I could swear I just upgraded Dreamweaver, and now everyone is drooling in anticipation of spending another couple hundred bucks. Grrr.

Though I do [fondly] recall the days of corporate web design, and just handing my boss a list of software that I needed. It was lovely … like Christmas…

posted at 11:51 am on April 9, 2002 by Johannah

10 Conversion Bug in DW4 for Mac

These changes are nice, since we use DW for mock ups and frequently use that code as the basis for the final code set, using BBEdit to replace tags while coding the finished product. However, I have found that the change from to as described in the article only works properly when Line Break is selected from the Insert menu. If I type Shift-Return (the default keyboard shortcut) a regular is inserted!

Does anyone have any bright ideas about this one? I use the keyboard shortcut all the time, so if that doesn’t work it’s not of much use to have made the change :-)

Cheers,

Dan

posted at 11:52 am on April 9, 2002 by Dan Rubin

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