8 Replies Latest reply: Sep 13, 2010 5:40 AM by bemdesign RSS

    Why doesn't my Live View look like webkit?

    Josiah S

      I'm (thinking about) switching from Aptana Studio to Dreamweaver CS5, but I'm having some problems with Dreamweaver's Live View feature. I was under the impression that Live View uses the webkit rendering engine, but the pages I've tried don't look very close to Safari or Chrome's interpretations. With a little bit of tinkering, I got it a little bit closer, but it's still not looking like webkit. There seems to be some sort of spacing issue, which is the biggest problem, but that may be caused by the fact that form elements (select, input, buttons, etc) look (and affect my layout) a lot different than anything in most browsers, and the default font (although I could get around it by specifying fonts maybe) seems to be an unusual serif font that doesn't play nice with my layouts.

       

      A screenshot of what I'm getting can be found (temporarily) here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/159889/Capture.PNG

       

      So, what do I need to do to make Live View render pages the same way as Safari or Chrome? It's not much more useful than Design View if I still have to load up a browser to see what my pages actually look like.