November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
16h 4m
English
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Working with Browsers
Dreamweaver can help you preview your HTML pages in different browsersand check browser compatibility. Here are some URLs from which you can download the major browsers:
Internet Explorer (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie)
Netscape Navigator (http://home.netscape.com/netscape)
America Online (http://www.aol.com)
Opera (http://www.opera.com)
iCab (http://www.icab.com)
Lynx (http://www.lynx.org)
Preview in Browser
Dreamweaver allows you to set up two web browsers
with
hot-key access. In most cases one browser will be a version of
Internet Explorer and one will be a version of Netscape Navigator. To
preview your document in your primary web browser, use
File → Preview in Browser →
browser1 (F12); to preview your document
in your secondary browser use File →
Preview in Browser →
browser2,
Ctrl+F12 (Windows), or Cmd+F12 (Macintosh). Set up browsers with
which to preview your documents by selecting Edit → Preferences
→ Preview in Browser or File → Preview in Browser → Edit
Browser List.
Tip
Your primary browser is also used to display Dreamweaver’s Help files. If the keyboard shortcuts don’t work on the Macintosh, turn off the Hot Function Key option in the Keyboard Control Panel.
To debug
a
document
in the primary browser, use File → Debug in
Browser →
browser1, Alt+F12
(Windows), or Opt+F12 (Macintosh).
To debug a document in the secondary browser use
File → Debug in Browser →
browser2, Ctrl+Alt+F12 (Windows), or
Cmd+Opt+F12 (Macintosh).
Browser Compatibility Checking ...
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.