Macromedia dreamweaver 8-extending dreamweaver Manuale Utente

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Introduction

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Streamlined handling of CSS styles

The CSS Styles and Relevant CSS panels have been combined. The Design panel is now 
named CSS; the CSS Styles panel is now named Styles. There is now a menu option for 
Document CSS Styles and Selection CSS Styles in the Window menu. In addition, an 
Edit Rule button has been added to the Property inspector. 

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Visual aids for CSS divs and layers

Dreamweaver now includes visual aids to let users see their CSS page layout.

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Zooming in and out

Dreamweaver now lets users zoom in and out while viewing their web pages.

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Guides

Dreamweaver now lets users create guides in their documents.

Documentation changes

Extending Dreamweaver includes the following improvements to help new extension authors 
get started.

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New and updated examples

New examples have been added for Reports and Behaviors. The example for Property 
inspectors has been improved. The steps for creating each type of extension are presented 
as a tutorial, which you can follow to understand what the files do and how they interact.

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New organization

Each chapter now begins with a table that lists the files required to create the type of 
extension described in the chapter. 

For information on the new functions that have been added to the Utility API and the 
JavaScript API, see the Dreamweaver API Reference. 

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Deprecated functions

In Dreamweaver 8, several functions have been deprecated. For information on the functions 
that have been removed from the Utility and JavaScript APIs, see the Dreamweaver API 
Reference.