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I am looking for development software that has a live preview of the page as you code it, and is aware of HTML5 and CSS3 syntax. Obviously it'd be useful if the live preview enngine was HTML5 and CSS3 capable too. I favor lightweight editors over heavyweight IDE's as I don't want much more than syntax highlighting, suggesting and checking, with the preview.

I have been using Topstyle 4, and whilst it seems to tick most of the boxes for me I find it lacking and a tad buggy, but can't seem to find any other software that fits.

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I dont think ther eis anything that will let you pick and choose a specific external rendering engine (Trident, WebKit, Gecko) for previewing. And since youre going to have to look at multiple browsers to check to me it would make more sense to use a hot key to open the page in an external program - in this case a browser. Especially since HTML5 is so new and not fully supported yet. ust my two cents... take it or leave it.

Now having said that in general i would recommend E or Notepad++ on the Windows platform and Textmate on the Mac platform.

prodigitalson
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you should try komodo edit
it's using gecko 1.9 (corresponding roughly to firefox 3)
if you are adventurous, you can also try their nightly here (1.9.1 > ff 3.5)

Knu