After reading an interesting article about Microsoft’s commitment to HTML5 and CSS3, I tried to dip my toe in a little and fired up EW4 (SP2). I opened a site I’m currently working on that has validated successfully as HTML5 on W3C’s validator service and ran compatibility. It gave me a lot of errors, particularly with block level tags inside anchor tags:

<a href="/whatever/">
 <img src="/someimage.jpg" />
 <p>Some text</p>
</a>

This validates on the W3C but not in EW4.  Looks like I’ll be going back to DW and/or Aptana in the meantime.  Just for a lark, I decided to test the whole folder/site.  BOOM! EW4 crashed, and brought my desktop down with it. Hehe. Oh well…

Someone who is more competent in EW4 could probably explain why this is happening, but I don’t have the time to google it.  I will admit that I have not used EW4 that much, and after this, I might wait a while more before I try to use it again on paying projects.  Maybe when I have some free time (HAH!) I’ll look into this again.

Maybe.