@Jon Fritz
Thanks for you detailled answer.
The live view does not "feel" like a true editor. It is to slow, not direct enough and more of an "interface", e.g. the way you manipulate table cells as you explained above.
In a "true" editor you mark content directly and not via an interface.
Like you I prefer working in the code view over using graphical dialogues.
But what for do I appreciate the design view so much?
For standard content types like headings, paragraphs, lists, tables.
I love the ease and readability of the pure content in the design view, which makes it a lot easier to focus on the content, compared to the code view.
The code view I use for non standard tasks, where I need the precision of editing the source code.
I think it is a bad decision from Adobe to give up the design view.
And I'm sad about the fact, that there's no possibility to add functionality in form of extensions.
Further I criticize, that you can't choose between an entity and a unicode character.
Using entities, which are not neccessary, are kind of staying at old habbits.
Some years ago I was invited to take part at the beta testing of DW in Germany and worked very nicely together with Preran.
May be he reminds many of the issues I created in the data base of Adobe.
