I wanted to make this post to make a point about one issue I have with the HTML code that WebDEV creates.

As a test I created a simple page in WebDEV and Dreamweaver 8. Here’s the page I built:

Now the old style way to build a page is using TABLE elements, but that’s just not done now. It causes all sorts of complications with compatibility with browsers, even though WebDEV has some compatibility functionality.

As you can see in the above source code generated, WebDEV builds the layout around tables which is really horrid.

I would love to see WebDEV take a leaf out of the Dreamweaver book. I created the same design in Dreamweaver 8:

As you can see the code that Dreamweaver produces is so much cleaner and will also load faster as it is using CSS to layout the page. This is the code I want to see WebDEV produce, clean, quick and modern.

What do you think? What are your views on this?

Please leave a comment with your thoughts.