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Expression® Web 3 Top Features

Professional Design Surface - Generate elegant, modern CSS layouts with a state-of-the-art design surface.
Visual Diagnostics - Compare your pages in multiple browsers on your development PC with SuperPreview.
Rich Content - Easily add Silverlight, Flash, Deep Zoom or Windows Media files with drag-and-drop controls.

Microsoft Expression Web 3

Release Notes

This document provides information that supplements the Microsoft® Expression® Web 3 User Guide.

Mark of the Web and Deep Zoom content
If the Mark of the Web comment is inserted in a page and then the page is opened in Internet Explorer, Deep Zoom content does not function.
Fixed position elements in Super Preview
Content with CSS fixed positioning may appear in several places in the SuperPreview display.
Flash and ActiveX objects in SuperPreview
Because SuperPreview does not render Flash, ActiveX, or other object content, a region that contains an object may not be displayed at the same size as it would be displayed in a browser (depending on the underlying HTML and CSS). Set width and height dimensions (in pixels) for each DIV tag that contains an object tag to help mitigate this problem.
Script-triggered layout changes in SuperPreview
Layout changes triggered by asynchronous JavaScript or other Ajax content with extended load times may not render in SuperPreview.
Firefox displays in SuperPreview
Mozilla® Firefox® browser views inside SuperPreview are displayed with Firefox default installation settings, ignoring any user-customized settings.

Login-controlled pages in SuperPreview
SuperPreview does not prompt users for logon credentials such as those controlled by an .htaccess file. Attempts to access a page protected in this way will fail.

Right-to-left language rendering in SuperPreview
Using HTML to set the text direction to right-to-left causes rendering issues in all browsers.
SuperPreview and Internet Explorer 8 Beta
SuperPreview is incompatible with Beta and Release Candidate (RC) versions of Internet Explorer 8.
Too many connections over FTP
When trying to connect to FTP, SFTP, or FTPS servers that don't support simultaneous file transfers, Expression Web may repeatedly display the error message “Too many connections from this IP.” If this error occurs, click Publishing Settings, and then click Site Settings. Click the Publishing tab, and then click Edit to display the Connection Settings dialog box for the publishing destination. Set Maximum simultaneous connections to 1.
Overwriting files that are not checked out in Team Foundation Server
If you start a Get all files from the publishing destination operation without first checking out the files in your working folder, the files are not automatically checked out from source control. Instead, the files in your working folder will be overwritten but will still be locked and their status remains as "checked in." To work around this issue, check out any files that will be overwritten before getting the files from the publishing destination.