
Specifying Preview Browsers
As you develop Web pages, you’ll need to continually test how your work appears in different
browsers, such as Internet Explorer and Safari. What you see in the Dreamweaver Document
window is only an approximation of how the pages will look. Every browser has differences
in the way it displays Web pages, and although some of these discrepancies are slight, the
differences can sometimes be significant. You might notice differences, even between different
versions of the same browser. The more you test your site in multiple browsers and on
different operating systems—and make changes to your pages accordingly—the more
certain you can be that visitors to the site see your pages as you intended them to appear.
The Preferences in Dreamweaver enable you to specify which browsers you want to use to
preview the pages in your site. To speed up the process, you can define a primary and a
secondary browser, with a keyboard shortcut for each.
1. Choose File > Preview in Browser > Edit Browser List.
Alternatively, you can choose Dreamweaver > Preferences (Macintosh) or
Edit > Preferences (Windows) and select Preview In Browser in the Category list,
located on the left side of the dialog box, to open the same Preview In Browser
Preferences dialog box. You can also use the keyboard command Command+U
(Macintosh) or Ctrl+U (Windows) to open the Preferences dialog box.
The Preferences dialog box opens to display the Preview In Browser preferences.
Dreamweaver can automatically list one of more of the browsers that are on your computer.
On Windows, Internet Explorer may appear as iexplore or iexplore.exe in
the list.
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ISBN: 0-558-13856-X
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: Training from the Source, by Khristine Annwn Page. Copyright © 2006 by Adobe Systems, Inc.
Published by Peachpit Press, a Pearson Company.
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