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Laying the Groundwork in Dreamweaver CS3 Part I
FIGURE 2-17
Dreamweaver offers only the JavaScript commands that work with the browser you specify.
For complete details about working with JavaScript behaviors, see Chapter 12.
Program Extensibility
One of Dreamweaver??™s primary strengths is its extensibility. Virtually no two Web sites are alike, either in
their design or execution. With such a tremendous variety of results, the more flexible a Web authoring
tool, the more useful it is to a larger group of designers. When it was introduced, Dreamweaver broke new
ground with objects and behaviors that were easily customizable. Now, Dreamweaver lengthens its lead
with custom floaters, commands, translators, and Property inspectors. The basic underpinnings of
Dreamweaver can even be extended with C-Level Extensibility options.
Objects and behaviors
In Dreamweaver parlance, an object is a bit of HTML code that represents a specific image or HTML tag,
such as a or a . Dreamweaver??™s objects are completely open to user customization, or
even out-and-out creation. For example, if you??™d rather import structured data into a table without a border
instead of with the standard 1-pixel border, you can easily make that modification to the Insert Tabular Data
object file??”right from within Dreamweaver??”and every subsequent table is similarly inserted.


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