To turn off this preference, select Edit > Preferences > Site, and deselect the Move Options checkbox. This preference is enabled by default and makes working with remote files safer. Increased safety when moving files on the serverĪ preference was added that causes Dreamweaver to prompt you when you move a folder or file on the server. To turn on this preference, open the New Document preference dialog box (Edit > Preferences > New Document), and then select the checkbox below the Default Encoding pop-up menu. If the page does not specify an encoding, Dreamweaver sets the page's encoding to the specified default encoding. To address this problem, a new preference was added to check for an encoding every time you open a page in Dreamweaver. If the meta tag does not specify an encoding, however, Dreamweaver guesses latin-1 or some other encoding that might not be the desired encoding.
When you open a page in Dreamweaver, the application checks the encoding specified in the page's meta tag to tell it how to encode and decode the characters in the file. Users in eastern Europe report that when a character encoding is not specified in an existing page, Dreamweaver does not correctly display the eastern European characters. Opening files with no specified character encoding Changes include significant improvements to the Files Panel, view auto-refreshing, sorting, and scrolling. Site management capabilities and stability were significantly improved.
This update siginificantly improves the Find/Replace feature in Dreamweaver, such as improved stability and more consistent searching capabilities. The fixes in this update significantly improves connection and interoperability with different FTP servers. Additionally, important CSS rendering bugs were fixed, such as importing style sheets and refreshing Design view after changing display property to "none". The update fixes several stability and general bugs users encountered when editing CSS. The update fixes a number of rendering and visualization issues with ASP.NET documents, as well as problems with in-place ASP.NET editing and workflow.
For help on using this feature, download the "Animating Layers with Timelines" PDF from the Dreamweaver Documentation Center. The timelines feature, available in Dreamweaver MX but not in Dreamweaver MX 2004, has been restored. The update fixes several bugs that caused Dreamweaver to crash, such as in certain circumstances when working on ASP.NET or JSP pages in Design view, or when applying bold or italics to text after applying a color style to the text. The update fixes various performance issues reported by some users, such as when typing in pages with nested tables, switching documents, or launching Dreamweaver. The following are some of the more important issues resolved.
The 7.0.1 update fixes bugs in Dreamweaver MX 2004 on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. For more information, see the Dreamweaver system requirements on the Macromedia website.
Dreamweaver also no longer supports monitor resolutions below 1024 x 768 pixels. Starting with the Dreamweaver MX 2004 release, Dreamweaver no longer supports Windows Me, Windows NT, or Macintosh OS 9 or OS 10.2.5 or earlier.
For example, you can't use the English updater with a non-English version of Dreamweaver. Make sure the language version of the updater matches the language version of your copy of Dreamweaver.
Some of these issues could cause Dreamweaver to perform slowly or occasionally crash, so all current Dreamweaver MX 2004 users should download and install this software update. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 (7.0.1) fixes known problems in Dreamweaver MX 2004.
It provides rich, powerful CSS support and lets you work within one environment to easily create and manage any professional website, whether it's built using HTML, XHTML, XML, web services, ColdFusion, ASP.NET, ASP, JSP, or PHP. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 is an easy, powerful, and open authoring tool that every member of the development team can use to quickly build robust websites and Internet applications. Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Dreamweaver MX 2004 Update 7.0.1 Release Notes