I had the chance today to install and begin using the Dreamweaver cs4 beta. Although I haven't spent to much time diving into the more advanced (and probably more useful) features, here's what I have found so far.
At first glance, the interface has more of a professional feel...No longer am I working in an interface that feels more like a toy box than a tool-set. Panels can be minified alike the rest of the CS3 products. And you now can easily switch and modify workspace layouts for particular tasks.
The File manager refreshes without user interaction. In previous versions it has been noted that the file structure usually required a click of the refresh button in the panel...so far today I haven't had to push it once. In fact the file structure updates almost immediately.
Design View ACTUALLY WORKS!!! Armed with webkit as the design view renderer, Dreamweaver 4 can be put into "live-view" mode and renders the view as compliant HTML or XHTML (did I mention it was using webkit!!!!!). Albeit the webkit rendering is not available when the user is directly manipulating the design view, but again that is a bad habit of many web novices and should be avoided all together.
I believe that this next release of Dreamweaver may have finally sold me on using it vs. other packages like Panic's Coda.
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